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2 Samuel Ch 3.v.31. And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes & gird you with sackcloth, & mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed alone. -- Gen: 50 ch. v. 10 etc "And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan & there they mourned with a great & very unclear Lamentaton; and he made a mourning for his father seven days. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a generous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the unclear of its was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. Esther Ch. IV v. 13 & 3 & unclear and in every province whitthersoever the kings' commandments & his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews & fasting & weeping, and wailing: & many lay in sackcloth & ashes." --- 316. N. Carolina Indian. "When one of them dies, they fast 3 days successively around his grave. 2. Saml Ch 12 v. 16. quoted before -- David fasted -- Ch: 2. v. 16 Gather the people etc -- 17. Let the priests the ministers of the Lord weep between the unclear & the alter.