FROM MY SOON TO BE RELEASED BOOK IN DEC 2011: 365 ADVANCED QUES & ANS
FROM THE BIBLE FOR EVERYDAY OF THE YEAR TO HELP YOU
FALL IN LOVE WITH THE WORD OF GOD ALL OVER!
TRANSLATOR
*QUES: Mention 10 places in the Bible that Kings, Parents, Priests or Queens tore their clothes or rent their garments and why?
*ANS: 1. Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth and mourned for his son Joseph for a long time. This was when he was shown the blood stained robe of Joseph that they alleged they had found. {GEN 37:31 -34}.
*2. David the Anointed King of Israel tore his clothes in sorrow and all his men with him did the same when a young man from Saul’s camp, an Amelikite arrived in Ziklag and claimed he had been the one who had killed King Saul.{2 SAM 1: 11-12.}.
*3. The King, David stood up and tore his clothes in sorrow and threw himself to the ground and the servants who were with him tore their clothes also. This was when he was told that Absalom had killed all his sons and that not one of them was left alive. This was later found to be untrue as only Ammon was killed by Absalom in revenge for Ammon’s rape of his sister Tamar. {2 SAM 13: 30 – 32}.
*4. King Ahab of Israel, tore his clothes, took them off, and put on sackcloth, refused food, slept in the sackcloth and went about gloomy and depressed. This was after the prophet Elijah had pronounced the sentence from the Lord God of Israel for what Ahab did in killing Naboath by stoning him to death and seizing his vineyard.{1 KINGS 21:27}.
*5. The King of Israel tore his clothes in dismay after reading the letter from the King of Syria concerning Namaan, the commander of the Syrian army. The letter said,’’This letter will introduce my officer Namaan.I want you to cure him of his leprosy. {2 KNGS 5: 6-7}.
*6. The King of Israel tore his clothes in dismay and the people who were close to the wall could see that he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes. This was during a siege of the city of Samaria by King Benhadad of Syria and the King of Israel whilst walking by on the city wall was interrupted by a woman who cried out and told him that she was having this trouble with a woman who refused to bring her own child for them to cook and eat after they has cooked and eaten hers. {{2 KINGS 6:24 -30}.
*7. Queen Athaliah of Judah tore her clothes in distress and shouted, ‘’Treason! Treason! When after hearing the noise made by the guards and the people, hurried to the temple and then saw the new boy King Jehoiada already crowned and standing by the column at the entrance of the temple as was the custom.{ 2KNGS 11: 13 -14}.
*8. King Hezekiah tore his clothes in grief, put on sackcloth and went to the temple of the Lord. This was after he heard the report of his officials, Eliakim, Shebna and Joah which was delivered from the Assyrian King Sennacherib by an Assyrian official. {2 KNGS 19:1}.
*9. King Josiah tore his clothes in dismay after hearing from the newly discovered ‘’Book of the Law’’ that was read aloud to him. {2 CHRON 34:19}.
*10. The High Priest, Caiaphas tore his clothes and said,’’Blasphemy! We don’t need any more witnesses! You have just heard His blasphemy! What do you think?This was when Jesus was arrested and taken before the whole council. The High Priest had asked Jesus directly if He was the Messiah .And Jesus answered,’’So you say. But I tell you all that from this time you will see the Son of man sitting on the right side of Almighty God and coming on the clouds of Heaven.{ MT 26:65 / MK 14 : 63 }.
