ASHES

Passages on this topic · 15

• Numbers 19:9

  “A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity. It is a sin offering.

• Numbers 19:10

  He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.

• Numbers 19:17

  “For the unclean, they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be poured into a vessel.

• 2 Samuel 13:19

  Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

• 1 Kings 20:38

  So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.

• 1 Kings 20:41

  He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized that he was one of the prophets.

• Esther 4:1

  Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly.

• Esther 4:3

  In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

• Job 2:8

  He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

• Job 42:6

  Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

• Daniel 9:3

  I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

• Jonah 3:6

  The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

• Matthew 11:21

  “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

• Luke 10:13

  “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

• Hebrews 9:13

  For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh: