TOPICAL STUDY

FASTING

EXO 24:18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the

mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

EXO 34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did

neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of

the covenant, the ten commandments.

DEU 9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even

the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the

mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

DEU 9:18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty

nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which

ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

1SA 7:6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out

before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against

the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

1SA 31:13 And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh,

and fasted seven days.

2SA 1:12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for

Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel;

because they were fallen by the sword.

2SA 3:35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was

yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread,

or ought else, till the sun be down.

2SA 12:16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and

went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

2SA 12:21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast

done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the

child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.

2SA 12:22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I

said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

2SA 12:23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back

again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

1KI 19:8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that

meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

1CH 10:12 They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and

the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under

the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

NEH 9:1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel

were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

NEH 9:2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and

stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

EST 4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast

ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my

maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not

according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

PSA 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I

humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

JER 36:6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from

my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house

upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah

that come out of their cities.

DAN 6:18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting:

neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from

him.

DAN 9:3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and

supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

DAN 10:2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

DAN 10:3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth,

neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

MAT 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an

hungred.

MAT 9:14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the

Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?

MAR 1:12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.

MAR 1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and

was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

MAR 2:18 And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they

come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast,

but thy disciples fast not?

LUK 2:37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed

not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

LUK 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was

led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

LUK 4:2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat

nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

ACT 10:30 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fdsting until this hour; and

at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in

bright clothing,

ACT 13:3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them,

they sent them away.

ACT 14:23 And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had

prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.

2CO 6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in

fastings;

2CO 11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and

thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.