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John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 1:11

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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When David took hold on his clothes, etc.] Not on the young man’s but his own: and rent them; on bearing of the death of Saul and Jonathan, (see <013734> Genesis 37:34); from whence the Jews f11 gather, that a man is bound to rend his clothes for a prince, and for the father of the sanhedrim, since Saul, they say, was the prince, and Jonathan the father of that court: and likewise all the men that [were] with him; rent their clothes also, in imitation of him; the same custom obtained among the Gentiles on mournful occasions f12.
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