Call; invite and oblige them by the course of his providence, and require this by the precepts requiring these things in such times and conditions. To baldness; to make themselves bald, by plucking or shaving off the hair of their heads, as was usual in great sorrows, as Ezra 9:3 Job 1:20 Micah 1:16, although it was forbidden in case of the death of relations, for a special reason; of which see on Leviticus 19:27,28 Leviticus 21:5.
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Isaiah 22:12
12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: