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Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Exodus Chapter 24: Verse 18
Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant,the Ten Commandments. The Radiant Face of Moses
Exodus Chapter 34: Verse 28
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.
Deuteronomy Chapter 9: Verse 9
Then once again I fell prostrate before the LORD for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the LORD's sight and so provoking him to anger.
Deuteronomy Chapter 9: Verse 18
When they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel was leader of Israel at Mizpah.
1 Samuel Chapter 7: Verse 6
Then they took their bones and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
1 Samuel Chapter 31: Verse 13
They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
2 Samuel Chapter 1: Verse 12
Then they all came and urged David to eat something while it was still day; but David took an oath, saying, "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!"
2 Samuel Chapter 3: Verse 35
David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and went into his house and spent the nights lying on the ground.
2 Samuel Chapter 12: Verse 16
His servants asked him, "Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!"
He answered, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, 'Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let the child live.'
But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me."
2 Samuel Chapter 12: Verses 21 - 23
So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
1 Kings Chapter 19: Verse 8
all their valiant men went and took the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones under the great tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
1 Chronicles Chapter 10: Verse 12
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and having dust on their heads.
Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the wickedness of their fathers.
Nehemiah Chapter 9: Verses 1 - 2
"Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish."
Esther Chapter 4: Verse 16
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,
Psalms Chapter 35: Verse 13
So you go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting and read to the people from the scroll the words of the LORD that you wrote as I dictated. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns.
Jeremiah Chapter 36: Verse 6
Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.
Daniel Chapter 6: Verse 18
So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.
Daniel Chapter 9: Verse 3
At that time I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks.
I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.
Daniel Chapter 10: Verses 2 - 3
After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
Matthew Chapter 4: Verse 2
Then John's disciples came and asked him, "How is it that we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"
Matthew Chapter 9: Verse 14
At once the Spirit sent him out into the desert,
and he was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.The Calling of the First Disciples
Mark Chapter 1: Verses 12 - 13
Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, "How is it that John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?"
Mark Chapter 2: Verse 18
and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
Luke Chapter 2: Verse 37
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert,
where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
Luke Chapter 4: Verses 1 - 2
Cornelius answered: "Four days ago I was in my house praying at this hour, at three in the afternoon. Suddenly a man in shining clothes stood before me
Acts Chapter 10: Verse 30
So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.On Cyprus
Acts Chapter 13: Verse 3
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.
Acts Chapter 14: Verse 23
in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;
2 Corinthians Chapter 6: Verse 5
I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.
2 Corinthians Chapter 11: Verse 27
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