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
And now leave me [alone] so that {my anger may blaze} against them, and let me destroy them, and I will make you into a great nation."
Exodus 34:28
And he was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights. He ate no food and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words.
2 Samuel 12:16
David pleaded [with] God on behalf of the boy and David fasted. He went to spend the night and lay upon the ground.
Psalm 106:23
So he said he would exterminate them, had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to reverse his wrath from destroying [them].

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Deuteronomy 9:25
"And I lay prostrate before Yahweh through forty days, and through forty nights I prostrated myself, because Yahweh intended to kill you.