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
As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.
Nehemiah 1:4
As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
Isaiah 3:26
And her gates shall lament and mourn; empty, she shall sit on the ground.
Isaiah 47:1
Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
Seven days
Genesis 1:5
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
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
None spake
Job 4:2
"If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
Psalm 77:4
You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.