Fasting

"Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah."

2 Chronicles 20:3

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

2 Samuel 12:16

"He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank."

Acts 9:9

"Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour,10:30 3:00 p.m. I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing"

Acts 10:30

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

Acts 13:3

"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."

Daniel 6:18

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

Daniel 9:3

"In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks."

Daniel 10:2

"I ate no pleasant food. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled."

Daniel 10:3

"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."

Deuteronomy 9:9

"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."

Esther 4:3

"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."

Exodus 34:28

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

Ezra 8:23

"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, for our little ones, and for all our possessions."

Ezra 8:21

"‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see?"

Isaiah 58:3

"Behold, you fast for strife and contention,"

Isaiah 58:4

"Is this the fast that I have chosen?"

Isaiah 58:5

"Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, Yahweh’s words, in the ears of the people in Yahweh’s house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities."

Jeremiah 36:6

"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."

Jeremiah 36:9

"Sanctify a fast."

Joel 1:14