Ashes:
The ashes of a red heifer burned entire (Num 19:5) when sprinkled on the unclean made them ceremonially clean (Hbr 9:13).
To cover the head with ashes was a token of self-abhorrence and humiliation (2Sa 13:19; Est 4:3; Jer 6:26, etc.).
To feed on ashes (Isa 44:20), means to seek that which will prove to be vain and unsatisfactory, and hence it denotes the unsatisfactory nature of idol-worship. (Hsa 12:1).
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