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
Johanan
He did eat
He mourned
Bible References
The chamber
Nehemiah 13:5
He made for himself a large storeroom where previously they had been keeping the grain offering, the incense, and the vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil as commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gate keepers, and the offering for the priests.
Johanan
Nehemiah 3:1
Then Eliashib the high priest and his priestly colleagues arose and built the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and erected its doors, working as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel.
Nehemiah 12:10
Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim was the father of Eliashib, Eliashib was the father of Joiada,
Nehemiah 13:28
Now one of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. So I banished him from my sight.
He did eat
Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.
Job 23:12
I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my allotted portion.
John 4:31
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, eat something."
He mourned
Ezra 9:4
Everyone who held the words of the God of Israel in awe gathered around me because of the unfaithful acts of the people of the exile. Devastated, I continued to sit there until the evening offering.
Isaiah 22:12
At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.
Daniel 9:3
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.