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 tore my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
Nehemiah 1:4
It happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,
Isaiah 3:26
Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
Isaiah 47:1
"Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, 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. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
Genesis 50:10
They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sorrowful lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
None spake
Job 4:2
"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Psalm 77:4
You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.