FASTING


Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New 
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

EXO 24:18  Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And 
he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

34:28  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.

DEU 9:9  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.

18  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.

1SA 7:6  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.

31:13  Then they took their bones and buried them under a tamarisk tree at 
Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

2SA 1:12  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.

3:35  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!"

12:16  David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and went into his 
house and spent the nights lying on the ground.

21  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!"

22  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.'

23  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."

1KI 19:8  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.

1CH 10:12  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.

NEH 9:1  On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites 
gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and having dust on their 
heads.

2  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.

EST 4:16  "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."

PSA 35:13  Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself 
with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

JER 36:6  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.

DAN 6:18  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.

9:3  So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and 
petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.

10:2  At that time I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks.

3  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.

MAT 4:2  After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

9:14  Then John's disciples came and asked him, "How is it that we and the 
Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"

MAR 1:12  At once the Spirit sent him out into the desert,

13  and he was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was 
with the wild animals, and angels attended him.

2:18  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?"

LUK 2:37  and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left 
the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

4:1  Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led 
by the Spirit in the desert,

2  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.

ACT 10:30  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

13:3  So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them 
and sent them off.

14:23  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.

2CO 6:5  in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless 
nights and hunger;

11:27  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.

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