Scriptures on Fasting

Scriptures on Fasting

Old Testament

Genesis 24:33             Abraham’s servant seeking a bride for Isaac

Exodus 34:27-28        Moses’ for forty days on Sinai

Leviticus 16:29-31       On the Day of Atonement

Leviticus 23:27, 32     On the Day of Atonement

Deuteronomy 9:9, 18            Moses for forty days on Sinai

Judges 20:26-2           Divine guidance

1 Samuel 1:7, 8           Hannah’s prayer for a child

1 Samuel 7:5-6            At Mizpah under Samuel

1 Samuel 20:24           Jonathan grieved at Saul’s actions

1 Samuel 31:11-13      Public disasters

2 Samuel 1:12             Public calamities

2 Samuel 3:35             David of Abner’s death

2 Samuel 12:16           Grief

1 Kings 13:8-24                     Prophet at Bethel

1 Kings 19:2-8             Elijah on his journey to Horeb

1 Kings 21:4, 5, 27-29   Ahab in self-humiliation

1 Chronicles 10:12     The people of Jabesh-gilead, for Saul and his sons

2 Chronicles 20:3        Of Jehoshaphat, at the time of the invasion of the                                        Confederated armies of the Canaanites and           Syrians.

Ezra 8:21-23                          Proclaimed by Ezra at Ahava River

Ezra 10:6                      Ezra mourning exiles’ faithlessness

Nehemiah 1:4                        For the restoration of Jerusalem

Nehemiah 9:1-2           Confessing sins

Esther 4:3, 16                        Following Haman’s decree

Esther 4:16                   Esther prior to meeting with King

Esther 9:31                   Feast of Purim

Job 33:19                     As a result of pain

Psalm 35:13                 For the sick

Psalm 69:10                 Chasten the soul

Psalm 107:17               Sickness

Psalm 109:4, 24          Physical weakness

Isaiah 58                       Pleases God

Jeremiah 36:6              Reading of the scriptures

Jeremiah 36:9              At prophesies against Judah and Jerusalem

Ezekiel 29:11-13          Egypt’s desolation

Daniel 6:18-20                       Darius fasts

Daniel 9:3                     Daniel praying for Jerusalem

Daniel 10:1-3               Daniel’s three week’s partial fast

Joel 2:12                       Returning to God

Jonah 3:5-9                  People of Ninevah

Zechariah 7:3-7          Mourning

Zechariah 8:19           4th, 5th, 7th, and 10th months

New Testament

Matthew 4:1-11            Jesus for 40 days

Matthew 6:16-18          Avoid display

Matthew 9:14               John’s disciples

Matthew 11:18             John the Baptist

Matthew 17:21             Power of fasting

Mark 2:18                     John’s disciples & the Pharisees

Mark 8:1-3                              Four thousand people fasting three days

Mark 9:29                     This kind can only come out by

Luke 2:36-37                Anna

Luke 4:1-2                    Jesus for 40 days

Luke 5:33-35                John’s disciples

Luke 7:33                     John the Baptist’s character

Luke 18:12                   Pharisees

Acts 9:9                        Saul encounters Christ

Acts 10:30                    Angel with Cornelius

Acts 13:2                      Commissioning of Saul & Barnabas

Acts 13:3                      Sacred ordination

Acts 14:23                    Appointment of Pastors

Acts 23:12-13              Fasting with evil intent

Acts 27                         Shipwreck of Paul

1 Corinthians 7:5         In marriage

1 Corinthians 8:8         Little value in itself

2 Corinthians 6:4, 5     Apostles

2 Corinthians 11:27     Paul