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