2 Samuel 1:11
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
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
Genesis 37:34; from whence the Jews {l} 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 {m}.
{l} T. Bab. Moed. Katon, fol. 26. 1.
{m} "-----it scissa veste Latinus". Virgil. Aeneid. 12. prope finem.
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