Fasting

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• 2 Samuel 1:12 OT

  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.

• Psalms 35:13 OT

  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.

• Daniel 6:18 OT

  Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

• 2 Samuel 12:16 OT

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

• Esther 4:16 OT

  “Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, 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…

• Acts 13:3 NT

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

• Acts 14:23 NT

  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.

• Daniel 9:3 OT

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

• 1 Samuel 7:6 OT

  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.

• Nehemiah 9:1 OT

  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 OT

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

• Deuteronomy 9:18 OT

  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.

• Deuteronomy 9:9 OT

  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.

• Matthew 4:1 NT

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

• Matthew 4:2 NT

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

• Mark 1:12 NT

  Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.

• Mark 1:13 NT

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

• Luke 4:1 NT

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

• Luke 4:2 NT

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

• Matthew 9:14 NT

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

• Luke 2:37 NT

  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.

• Mark 2:18 NT

  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 18:12 NT

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

• Acts 10:30 NT

  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,