Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

Lay all night

Bible References

Fasted

Esther 4:16
“Go, gather all the Jews that are present in Susa, and observe a fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids also will fast in the same way. Then I will go in to [see] the king [without being summoned], which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
Psalm 69:10

When I wept and humbled myself with fasting,
It became my reproach.
Isaiah 22:12

Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to mourning,
To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth [in humiliation].
Acts 9:9
And he was unable to see for three days, and he neither ate nor drank.

Lay all night

2 Samuel 13:31
Then the king stood and tore his clothes and lay on the ground [in mourning]; and all his servants were standing by with their clothes torn.
Job 20:12

“Though evil and wickedness are sweet in his mouth
And he hides it under his tongue,