Sackcloth - Perhaps Jehoram hoped to avert Yahweh’s anger, as his father had done (1 Kings 21:29). But there was no spirit of se…

And he pa ed. — Now he was pa ing. The people in the streets below would see him well as he pa ed along the rampart.

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And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes

Learn to value plenty and to be thankful for it; see how contemptible money is when, in a time of famine, it is so freely exchanged for anything ed…