rent his clothes. His repentance was outward, not real.
went softly: i.e. humbly.
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1 Kings 21:27
27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.