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Markdown
7 lines
298 B
Markdown
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## with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head ##
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Tearing one's clothes and putting dirt on one's head is an act of mourning humbling oneself.
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## he lay facedown on the ground and prostrated himself ##
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This was an act of this man humbling himself before David who was now the king of Israel.
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