Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Joshua 7:6

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rent: Gen 37:29, Gen 37:34; Num 14:6; Sa2 13:31; Ezr 9:3-5; Est 4:1; Job 1:20; Act 14:14 fell: Num 16:22, Num 16:45; Sa2 12:16 until the eventide: Jdg 20:23, Jdg 20:26, Jdg 21:2; Sa2 1:12 put dust: Rending the clothes, beating the breast, tearing the hair, throwing dust upon the head, and falling prostrate, were usual signs of deep affliction and distress among the ancient Israelites. In illustration of this custom, see note on Sa1 4:12, when the messenger brought tidings to Eli of the discomfiture of the armies of Israel by the Philistines; again, in the case of Tamar, Sa2 13:19, and in Neh 9:1, when a whole nation, "assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them." In the case of Mordecai, see note on Est 4:1. See note on Job 2:12, where his friends abased themselves to comfort him. See note on Eze 27:30, see note on Jon 3:6, and see note on Mic 1:10. In each of these instances it is worthy of remark, that putting dust on the head generally follows rending of the clothes, and was the usual mode of evincing poignant sorrow. Joshua 7:7

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