⁶ Then Joshua ^(A)tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, both he and the elders of Israel; and ^(B)they put dust on their heads.

² Now it happened that on the third day, behold, ^(A)a man came out of the camp from Saul. And ^(B)his clothes were torn and ^[a]dust was on his head. And it happened when he came to David, that ^(C)he fell to the ground and prostrated himself.

³² Then it happened that as David was coming to the summit, where he used to worship God, that behold, Hushai the ^(A)Archite met him with his ^[a]coat torn and ^[b]dust on his head.

Israel Confesses Their Sins

9 Now on the twenty-fourth day of ^(A)this month the sons of Israel gathered ^(B)with fasting, in sackcloth and with ^(C)dirt upon them.

¹² Then they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, and they lifted up their voices and wept. And each of them ^(A)tore his robe, and they ^(B)threw dust over their heads toward the sky.