Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.

The chamber

Bible References

The chamber

Nehemiah 13:5
had prepared for him a great chamber, where formerly they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the s

Johanan

Nehemiah 3:1
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up the doors of it, even to the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel.
Nehemiah 12:10
And Jeshua begot Joiakim, and Joiakim begot Eliashib, and Eliashib begot Joiada,
Nehemiah 13:28
And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me.

He did eat

Deuteronomy 9:18
And I fell down before LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Job 23:12
I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips, I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
John 4:31
In the meanwhile the disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

He mourned

Ezra 9:4
Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of the trespass of those of the captivity, and I sat confounded until the evening oblation.
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day the Lord, LORD of hosts, called for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.
Daniel 9:3
And I set my face to LORD God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.