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.

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Bible References

I fell down

Exodus 32:10
Now therefore, let Me alone and do not interfere, so that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you (your descendants) a great nation.”
Exodus 34:28
Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
2 Samuel 12:16
David therefore appealed to God for the child [to be healed]; and David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.
Psalm 106:23

Therefore He said He would destroy them,
[And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the gap before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

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Deuteronomy 9:25
“So I fell down and lay face down before the Lord forty days and nights because the Lord had said He would destroy you.