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2 Samuel 1:11

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

When David took hold on his clothes,.... Not on the young man's but his own:and rent them; on bearing of the death of Saul and Jonathan, see Ge 37:34; from whence the Jews 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 .

T. Bab. Moed. Katon, fol. 26. 1. "-----it scissa veste Latinus". Virgil. Aeneid. 12.

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