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Joshua 7:6

And Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Heads. These marks of grief were very common. Achilles covered his head with ashes, tore his garments and face, when he received news of the death of his friend, Patroclus. Homer and Virgil, (Æneid xii.) speaking of Latinus, the king, says, It scissa veste Latinus Canitiem immundo perfusam pulvere turpans.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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