93 Verses About Clothes from 27 Books

1 Kings 1:1

Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn't keep warm.

1 Kings 21:27

It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

1 Samuel 4:12

There ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, and with earth on his head.

1 Samuel 19:13

Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at its head, and covered it with the clothes.

1 Samuel 19:24

He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"

2 Chronicles 23:13

and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, "Treason! treason!"

2 Chronicles 34:19

It happened, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he tore his clothes.



2 Chronicles 34:27

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you," says the LORD.

2 Kings 2:12

Elisha saw it, and he cried, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" He saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

2 Kings 5:7

It happened, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me."

2 Kings 5:8

It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel."

2 Kings 6:30

It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.

2 Kings 11:14

and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, "Treason! Treason!"

2 Kings 18:37

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.



2 Kings 19:1

It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 22:11

It happened, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he tore his clothes.

2 Kings 22:19

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,' says the LORD.

2 Samuel 1:2

it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him.

2 Samuel 3:31

David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.

2 Samuel 13:31

Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.



2 Samuel 19:24

Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

Acts 14:14

But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,

Acts 16:22

The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

Amos 2:8

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

Deuteronomy 29:5

I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.

Additions to Esther 7:1

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

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 midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly.



Exodus 12:34

The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

Exodus 19:14

Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

Ezekiel 16:39

I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.

Ezekiel 23:26

They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.

Genesis 27:15

Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

Genesis 37:29

Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

Genesis 37:34

Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.



Genesis 44:13

Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

Isaiah 36:22

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 37:1

It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the LORD's house.

Epistle of Jeremiah 6:20

They are like one of the beams of the temple, yet they say their hearts are gnawed upon by things creeping out of the earth; and when they and their clothes are eaten, they feel nothing.

Epistle of Jeremiah 6:31

and the priests sit in their temples, having their clothes torn, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads?





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