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FASTING ;
Observed on occasions of public calamities - 2Sa 1:12
Afflictions - Ps 35:13; Da 6:18
Private afflictions - 2Sa 12:16
Approaching danger - Es 4:16
Ordination of ministers - Ac 13:3; 14:23
Accompanied by prayer - Da 9:3
Confession of sin - 1Sa 7:6; Ne 9:1,2
During forty days
- Moses
- De 9:9,18- Jesus
- Mt 4:1,2; Mr 1:12,13; Lu 4:1,2Habitual
- By John's disciples
- Mt 9:14- By Anna
- Lu 2:37- By Pharisees
- Mt 9:14; Mr 2:18; Lu 18:12- By Cornelius
- Ac 10:30- By Paul
- 2Co 6:5; 11:27In times of bereavement
- Of the people of Jabesh-gilead, for Saul and his sons
- 1Sa 31:13; 1Ch 10:12- Of David, at the time of Saul's death
- 2Sa 1:12- Of Abner's death
- 2Sa 3:35Prolonged
- For three weeks, by Daniel
- Da 10:2,3- For forty days, by Moses
- Ex 24:18; 34:28; De 9:9,18- Elijah
- 1Ki 19:8- Jesus
- Mt 4:2See HUMILIATION
See HUMILITY
UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO - Ezr 8:21-23; Ps 35:13; 69:10; Isa 58:3-7; Jer 14:12; Da 10:3; Joe 1:14; 2:12,13; Zec 7:5; 8:19; Mt 6:16-18; 9:14,15; 17:21; Ac 27:9,33,34; 1Co 7:5
INSTANCES OF
- Of the Israelites
Benjamin, on account of the wrong suffered by a Levite's concubine - Jud 20:26
- In the conflict between the other tribes with the tribe of
- 1Sa 7:6
- When they went to Mizpeh for the ark of the covenant
- Of David
- 2Sa 1:12
- Upon the death of Saul
- 2Sa 12:16-22
- During the sickness of the child born to him by Bath-sheba
- Ps 35:13
- While interceding in prayer for his friends
- Ps 69:10
- In his zeal for Zion
- Ps 109:4,24
- In prayer for himself and his adversaries
- Of Ahab, when Elijah prophesied the destruction of himself
and his house - 1Ki 21:27; with 20:29- Of Jehoshaphat, at the time of the invasion of the
confederated armies of the Canaanites and Syrians - 2Ch 20:3- Of Ezra, on account of the idolatrous marriages of the Jews
- Ezr 10:6- Of Nehemiah, on account of the desolation of Jerusalem and
the temple - Ne 1:4- Of the Jews, when Jeremiah prophesied against Judea and
Jerusalem - Jer 36:9- In Babylon, with prayer for divine deliverance and guidance
- Ezr 8:21,23- Of Darius, when he put Daniel in the lions' den
- Da 6:18- Of Daniel
their deliverance - Da 9:3
- On account of the captivity of the people, with prayer for
- Da 10:1-3
- At the time of his vision
- Ninevites, when Jonah preached to them
- Jon 3:5-10- By Paul, at the time of his conversion
- Ac 9:9- Of the disciples, at the time of the consecration of
Barnabas and Saul - Ac 13:2,3- Of the consecration of the elders
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