Nave's Topical Index

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

Humiliation—De 9:18; Ne 9:1

During forty days

Moses
—De 9:9,18
Jesus
—Mt 4:1,2; Mr 1:12,13; Lu 4:1,2

Habitual

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; 11:27

In 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 3:35

Prolonged

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 4:2

See 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
- In the conflict between the other tribes with the tribe of
Benjamin, on account of the wrong suffered by a Levite's concubine—Jud 20:26
- When they went to Mizpeh for the ark of the covenant
—1Sa 7:6
Of David
- Upon the death of Saul
—2Sa 1:12
- During the sickness of the child born to him by Bath-sheba
—2Sa 12:16-22
- While interceding in prayer for his friends
—Ps 35:13
- In his zeal for Zion
—Ps 69:10
- In prayer for himself and his adversaries
—Ps 109:4,24
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
- On account of the captivity of the people, with prayer for
their deliverance—Da 9:3
- At the time of his vision
—Da 10:1-3
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
—Ac 14:23
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