FASTING

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• Exodus 24:18

  Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

• Exodus 34:28

  He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

• Deuteronomy 9:9

  When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

• Deuteronomy 9:18

  I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

• Judges 20:26

  Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 7:6

  They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

• 1 Samuel 31:13

  They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

• 2 Samuel 1:12

  They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword.

• 2 Samuel 3:35

  All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”

• 2 Samuel 12:16

  David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.

• 2 Samuel 12:17

  The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.

• 2 Samuel 12:18

  On the seventh day, the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn’t listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?”

• 2 Samuel 12:19

  But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”

• 2 Samuel 12:20

  Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into Yahweh’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him, and he ate.

• 2 Samuel 12:21

  Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”

• 2 Samuel 12:22

  He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

• 1 Kings 19:8

  He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

• 1 Kings 20:29

  They encamped opposite each other for seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand footmen of the Syrians in one day.

• 1 Kings 21:27

  When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

• 1 Chronicles 10:12

  all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

• 2 Chronicles 20:3

  Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

• Ezra 8:21

  Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.

• Ezra 8:22

  For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

• Ezra 8:23

  So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.

• Ezra 10:6

  Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.

• Nehemiah 1:4

  When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

• Nehemiah 9:1

  Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.

• Nehemiah 9:2

  The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

• Esther 4:16

  “Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

• Psalms 35:13

  But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

• Psalms 69:10

  When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

• Psalms 109:4

  In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

• Psalms 109:24

  My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

• Isaiah 58:3

  ‘Why have we fasted,’ say they, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

• Isaiah 58:4

  Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

• Isaiah 58:5

  Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?

• Isaiah 58:6

  “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

• Isaiah 58:7

  Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

• Jeremiah 14:12

  When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.”

• Jeremiah 36:9

  Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.

• Daniel 6:18

  Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.

• Daniel 9:3

  I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

• Daniel 10:1

  In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

• Daniel 10:2

  In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.

• Daniel 10:3

  I ate no pleasant bread, neither came meat nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

• Joel 1:14

  Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.

• Joel 2:12

  “Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

• Joel 2:13

  Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

• Jonah 3:5

  The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.

• Jonah 3:6

  The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

• Jonah 3:7

  He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

• Jonah 3:8

  but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

• Jonah 3:9

  Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”

• Jonah 3:10

  God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

• Zechariah 7:5

  “Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

• Zechariah 8:19

  Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”

• Matthew 4:1

  Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

• Matthew 4:2

  When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

• Matthew 6:16

  “Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

• Matthew 6:17

  But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;

• Matthew 6:18

  so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

• Matthew 9:14

  Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

• Matthew 9:15

  Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

• Matthew 17:21

  But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting.”

• Mark 1:12

  Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.

• Mark 1:13

  He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him.

• Mark 2:18

  John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”

• Luke 2:37

  and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

• Luke 4:1

  Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

• Luke 4:2

  for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

• Luke 18:12

  I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

• Acts 9:9

  He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

• Acts 10:30

  Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

• Acts 13:2

  As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

• Acts 13:3

  Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

• Acts 14:23

  When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

• Acts 27:9

  When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them,

• Acts 27:33

  While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.

• Acts 27:34

  Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

• 1 Corinthians 7:5

  Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

• 2 Corinthians 6:5

  in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

• 2 Corinthians 11:27

  in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.