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
General references
Bible References
I fell down
Exodus 32:10
Now leave Me alone, so that My anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
Exodus 34:28
Moses was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.
2 Samuel 12:16
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went home, and spent the night lying on the ground.
Psalm 106:23 So He said He would have destroyed them—
if Moses His chosen one
had not stood before Him in the breach
to turn His wrath away from destroying them.
if Moses His chosen one
had not stood before Him in the breach
to turn His wrath away from destroying them.
General references
Deuteronomy 9:25
“I fell down in the presence of the Lord 40 days and 40 nights because the Lord had threatened to destroy you.