Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

Bible References

Forty

Exodus 24:18
Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.
Exodus 34:28
Moses was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant the Lord made with you, I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat bread or drink water.
1 Kings 19:8
So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked 40 days and 40 nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
After He had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, He was hungry.

He did

Esther 4:16
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days, day or night. I and my female servants will also fast in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law. If I perish, I perish.”
Jonah 3:7
Then he issued a decree in Nineveh:

By order of the king and his nobles: No man or beast, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water.

He afterward

Matthew 21:18
Early in the morning, as He was returning to the city, He was hungry.
John 4:6
Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.
Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tested in every way as we are, yet without sin.

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