Nave’s Topical Bible
Fasting
70 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Observed on occasions of public calamities
- Afflictions
- Private afflictions
- Approaching danger
- Ordination of ministers
- Accompanied by prayer
- Confession of sin
- Humiliation
- During forty days
- Moses
- Jesus
- Habitual
- By John's disciples
- By Anna
- By Pharisees
- By Cornelius
- By Paul
- In times of bereavement
- Of the people of Jabesh-gilead, for Saul and his sons
- Of David, at the time of Saul's death
- Of Abner's death
- Prolonged
- For three weeks, by Daniel
- For forty days, by Moses
- Elijah
- Jesus
See HUMILIATION
See HUMILITY
- UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Ezra 8:21-23; Psalms 35:13; Psalms 69:10; Isaiah 58:3-7; Jeremiah 14:12; Daniel 10:3; Joel 1:14; Joel 2:12-13; Zechariah 7:5; Zechariah 8:19; Matthew 6:16-18; Matthew 9:14-15; Matthew 17:21; Acts 27:9,33-34; 1 Corinthians 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
- When they went to Mizpeh for the ark of the covenant
- Of David
- Upon the death of Saul
- During the sickness of the child born to him by Bath-sheba
- While interceding in prayer for his friends
- In his zeal for Zion
- In prayer for himself and his adversaries
- Of Ahab, when Elijah prophesied the destruction of himself and his house
- Of Jehoshaphat, at the time of the invasion of the confederated armies of the Canaanites and Syrians
- Of Ezra, on account of the idolatrous marriages of the Jews
- Of Nehemiah, on account of the desolation of Jerusalem and the temple
- Of the Jews, when Jeremiah prophesied against Judea and Jerusalem
- In Babylon, with prayer for divine deliverance and guidance
- Of Darius, when he put Daniel in the lions' den
- Of Daniel
- On account of the captivity of the people, with prayer for their deliverance
- At the time of his vision
- Ninevites, when Jonah preached to them
- By Paul, at the time of his conversion
- Of the disciples, at the time of the consecration of Barnabas and Saul
- Of the consecration of the elders
- Of the Israelites
Bible verses about “Fasting”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- 2 Samuel 1:12And 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.
- Psalms 35:13But 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.
- Daniel 6:18Then 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.
- 2 Samuel 12:16David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
- Esther 4:16Go, 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.
- Acts 13:3And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
- Acts 14:23And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
- Daniel 9:3And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
- 1 Samuel 7:6And 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.
- Nehemiah 9:1Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
- Nehemiah 9:2And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
- Deuteronomy 9:18And 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.
- Deuteronomy 9:9When 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:
- Matthew 4:1Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
- Matthew 4:2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
- Mark 1:12And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
- Mark 1:13And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
- Luke 4:1And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
- Luke 4:2Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
- Matthew 9:14Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
- Luke 2:37And 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.
- Mark 2:18And 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?
- Luke 18:12I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
- Acts 10:30And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
- 2 Corinthians 6:5In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
- 2 Corinthians 11:27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
- 1 Samuel 31:13And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
- 1 Chronicles 10:12They 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.
- 2 Samuel 3:35And 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.
- Daniel 10:2In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
- Daniel 10:3I 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.
- Exodus 24:18And 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.
- Exodus 34:28And 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.
- 1 Kings 19:8And 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.
- Ezra 8:21Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
- Ezra 8:22For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
- Ezra 8:23So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
- Psalms 69:10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
- Isaiah 58:3Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
- Isaiah 58:4Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.