Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
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Jonah 3:5
And the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed fasting, and arrayed themselves in sackcloth, as well the great as the small of them.
2 Chronicles 20:3
And Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed fasting throughout all Judah.
Ezra 8:21
And even there at the water beside Ahava, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and our children and all our substance.
Joel 2:15
Blow a trumpet in Zion, proclaim fasting and call a congregation.
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Joel 1:18
O what a fighting make the cattle? The bullocks are very evil liking, because they have no pasture: and the sheep are famished away.
Romans 8:20
because the creatures are subdued to vanity against their will: but for his will which subdueth them in hope.
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Genesis 37:34
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about his loins, and sorrowed for his son a long season.
Acts 9:9
And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.