2 Kings 6:30

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2 Kings 6:30 (WEB)
When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he was passing by on the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his body.

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Ambrose of Milan

Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy III.20Book III
“There was a great famine in Samaria, for the army of the Syrians was besieging it.” — editor's note: 2 [4] Kings vi. 25–31.
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John Cassian

John Cassian, The Institutes I.2Book I
“…our daily life, that Joram, the wicked king of Israel, when surrounded by bands of his foes, rent his clothes, and is said to have had sackcloth inside them; or that the Ninevites, in order to mitigate the sentence of God, which had been pronounced against them by the prophet, were clothed in rough sackcloth.” — editor's note: 2 Kings vi. 30.
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Jonah 3:8
Cited together in The Institutes I.2.
1 Timothy 6:8
Cited together in The Institutes I.2.

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