Fasting

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• 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.

• 1 Kings 19:8 OT

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

• Judges 20:26 OT

  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.

• Ezra 8:21 OT

  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.

• Esther 4:3 OT

  In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

• Jeremiah 36:9 OT

  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.

• 1 Samuel 31:13 OT

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

• Jonah 3:5-8 OT

  The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least. The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself…

• Psalms 109:24 OT

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

• Nehemiah 1:4 OT

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

• 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.

• 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,

• Acts 13:2 NT

  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.”

• 2 Corinthians 6:5 NT

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

• 2 Corinthians 11:27 NT

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

• 1 Kings 21:12 OT

  They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 1 Kings 21:27 OT

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

• 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?”