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 garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
Nehemiah 1:4
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
Isaiah 3:26
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate, shall sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 47:1
Come down, and sit in the dust, O 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 the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 50:10
And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
None spake
Job 4:2
If we essay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can refrain from speaking?
Psalm 77:4
Thou holdest my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.