Tearing clothes and putting dirt or ashes on the head was a normal reaction to grief and horror in the Old Testament (see 2 Samuel 13:19; 2 Samuel 15:32; Joshua 7:6).1
Tearing clothes and putting dirt or ashes on the head was a normal reaction to grief and horror in the Old Testament (see 2 Samuel 13:19; 2 Samuel 15:32; Joshua 7:6).1
12 A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.