Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fasting » Examples of » Elijah
It came about when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about despondently.
So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Fasting » In times of bereavement » Of the people of jabesh-gilead, for saul and his sons
They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
Jabesh-gilead » Saul and his sons buried at
Then the men of Judah came and there anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.”
Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, all the valiant men rose and walked all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
When all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, all the valiant men arose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh, and they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
Oak Trees » The ancients often » Buried their dead under
Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.