7 Bible Verses about Fasting For Long Periods

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.

So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.

where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.

I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.