Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fasting » Duty of
Even now, said Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning!
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Anoint your head and wash your face. That way, men may not see that you are fasting. Your Father knows in secret and will reward you.
Sanctify a fast! Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the House of Jehovah your God. Call out to Jehovah.
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(omitted, text not found in early manuscripts)
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Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent for a time. That way you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again, that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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Fasting » Observed on occasions of » Judgments of God
Even now, said Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning!
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Sanctify a fast! Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the House of Jehovah your God. Call out to Jehovah.
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Government » Mosaic » Seeks counsel from prophets
Seven years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylon, some of Israel's leaders came to me on the tenth day of the fifth month. They sat down and asked for a message from Jehovah.
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Sanctify a fast! Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the House of Jehovah your God. Call out to Jehovah.
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On the fifth day of the sixth month in the sixth year, I was sitting in my home. Judah's older men were sitting in front of me. The power of the Lord Jehovah came over me.
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Some of Israel's elders came to me and sat down in front of me.
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Son of man, these elders have come to find out what I want them to do. As surely as I live, I will not give them an answer of any kind.
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Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
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