Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
They sat
Seven days
None spake
Bible References
They sat
Ezra 9:3
And when I heard this thing, I rent my mantle and my garment, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down overwhelmed.
Nehemiah 1:4
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat and wept, and mourned for days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of the heavens,
Isaiah 3:26
and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 47:1
Come down and sit in the dust, virgin-daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Seven days
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning the first day.
Genesis 50:10
And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan; and there they lamented with a great and very grievous lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father of seven days.
None spake
Job 4:2
If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?
Psalm 77:4
Thou holdest open mine eyelids; I am full of disquiet and cannot speak.