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. Let my anger burn against them. I am so angry with them I am going to destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.
Exodus 34:28
Moses was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments (Ten Words).
2 Samuel 12:16
David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and lay on the ground all night.
Psalm 106:23
God said he was going to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, stood in his way to prevent him from exterminating them.
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Deuteronomy 9:25
So I fell down prostrate before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights. I did this because Jehovah said he would destroy you.