Fasting

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Joel 1:14 OT

  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 OT

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

• 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.

• Luke 5:33-35 NT

  They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?” He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?…

• 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.

• Ezra 8:23 OT

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

• 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.

• Isaiah 58:8-12 OT

  Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for…

• Isaiah 58:4 OT

  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 OT

  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?

• Matthew 6:16 NT

  “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.

• Luke 18:12 NT

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

• Isaiah 58:3 OT

  ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘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.

• Jeremiah 14:12 OT

  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, by famine, and by pestilence.”

• Matthew 4:2 NT

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

• Exodus 34:28 OT

  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.