Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
I fell down
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Bible References
I fell down
Exodus 32:10
Now let me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may consume them, but I'll make a great nation of you."
Exodus 34:28
While Moses was there with the LORD for 40 days and 40 nights, he did not eat or drink. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.
2 Samuel 12:16
After this, the LORD afflicted the child that Uriah's wife had born to David, and the child became very ill. David begged God on behalf of the youngster. He fasted, went inside, and spent the night lying on the ground.
Psalm 106:23
He would have destroyed them but for Moses, his chosen one, who stood in the breach before him to avert his destructive wrath.
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Deuteronomy 9:25
I fell down in the LORD's presence for 40 days and nights, because the LORD said he was ready to destroy you.