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
When I heard this thing, I rent my garment, and my robe, - and tore out of the hair of my head and my beard, and sat stunned.
Nehemiah 1:4
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and I mourned certain days, - and continued fasting and praying, before the God of the heavens;
Isaiah 3:26
And her gates shall mourn and lament, - And forsaken, on the ground, shah she sit.
Isaiah 47:1
Down - and sit in the dust, O virgin Daughter of Babylon, Sit on the ground - throneless, Daughter of the Chaldeans; For thou shalt no more be called Tender and Dainty.
Seven days
Genesis 1:5
and God called the light, day, but the darkness, called he, night. So it was evening - and it was morning, one day.
Genesis 50:10
And they came in, as far as the threshing-floor of the Buckthorn, which is beyond the Jordan, then wailed they there - an exceeding great and grievous walling, - and he made for his father a mourning, of seven days.
None spake
Job 4:2
If one attempt a word unto thee, wilt thou be impatient? But, to restrain speech, who, can endure?
Psalm 77:4
Thou hast held, watching, mine eyes, I was driven to and fro, and could not speak;