Nehemiah 9:1

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On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting, wearing sackcloth, and putting dust on their heads.

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  • Josh 7:6 : 6 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell face down to the ground before the ark of the Lord, remaining there until evening. The elders of Israel did the same and put dust on their heads.
  • 1 Sam 4:12 : 12 A man from the tribe of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh that same day, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.
  • Neh 8:2 : 2 So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, which included men, women, and all who could understand what they heard. This happened on the first day of the seventh month.
  • Ezra 8:23 : 23 So we fasted and prayed to our God about this, and He answered our prayer.
  • Esth 4:3 : 3 In every province where the king’s command and decree had reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
  • Esth 4:16 : 16 Go, gather all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.
  • Job 2:12 : 12 When they saw him from a distance, they could not recognize him. They raised their voices and wept. Each of them tore his robe and threw dust on their heads skyward as a sign of grief.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth.
  • Joel 1:13-14 : 13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God, for grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God. 14 Declare a holy fast; proclaim a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.
  • Joel 2:15-17 : 15 Blow the ram’s horn in Zion! Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. 16 Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out from his chamber and the bride from her wedding canopy. 17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your heritage an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?”'
  • Jonah 3:5-8 : 5 The people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least. 6 When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 Then he made a proclamation in Nineveh, by decree of the king and his nobles: “Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not graze or drink water. 8 But let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out to God with fervor. Let each turn from his evil ways and from the violence in their hands.
  • Acts 13:2-3 : 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, 'Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.' 3 Then, after fasting and praying, they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
  • 2 Sam 1:2 : 2 On the third day, a man came from Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. When he arrived before David, he fell to the ground and showed respect.
  • 2 Chr 7:10 : 10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people to their homes, joyful and glad of heart because of the goodness the LORD had shown to David, to Solomon, and to His people Israel.
  • 2 Chr 20:3 : 3 Jehoshaphat was afraid, so he resolved to seek the LORD. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
  • Judg 20:26 : 26 Then all the Israelites, the entire army, went up to Bethel, wept, sat before the LORD, and fasted that day until evening. They offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the LORD.
  • Lev 23:34 : 34 Speak to the Israelites and say: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month the Festival of Booths to the Lord begins, and it shall last for seven days.
  • Lev 23:39 : 39 However, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you must celebrate the Lord's Festival for seven days. The first day shall be a day of rest, and the eighth day shall also be a day of rest.

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  • Neh 9:2-3
    2 verses
    85%

    2The descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, stood, and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.

    3They stood in their places and read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day, and for another quarter, they confessed and worshiped the LORD their God.

  • Dan 9:3
    78%

    3So I turned my attention to the Lord God, seeking Him in prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

  • Ezra 10:9
    77%

    9So, within three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem. It was the twentieth day of the ninth month, and all the people sat in the square before the house of God, trembling because of the matter and because of the heavy rain.

  • Esth 4:2-3
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    75%

    2He went as far as the king’s gate, but no one was allowed to enter the king's gate wearing sackcloth.

    3In every province where the king’s command and decree had reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

  • Judg 20:26
    75%

    26Then all the Israelites, the entire army, went up to Bethel, wept, sat before the LORD, and fasted that day until evening. They offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the LORD.

  • Joel 1:13-14
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    74%

    13Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God, for grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

    14Declare a holy fast; proclaim a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

  • Ezra 3:1
    74%

    1When the seventh month came, and the Israelites were in their cities, the people gathered together as one in Jerusalem.

  • Jonah 3:5-6
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    5The people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

    6When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

  • Ezra 10:1
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    1While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping, and falling facedown in front of the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, because the people were weeping bitterly.

  • Isa 22:12
    73%

    12In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth.

  • Jer 36:9
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    9In the fifth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, a fast was proclaimed before the LORD for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah.

  • Neh 1:4
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    4When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned, fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven.

  • Ezra 9:3-6
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    3When I heard this, I tore my garment and my robe, pulled out some of the hair from my head and beard, and sat down appalled.

    4Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of this unfaithfulness of the exiles gathered around me as I sat there appalled until the evening sacrifice.

    5At the time of the evening sacrifice, I arose from my self-abasement, with my garment and robe torn, and I knelt with my hands spread out to the Lord my God.

    6I said, 'My God, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift my face to you, my God, because our sins are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.'

  • Ezra 6:21
    72%

    21The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, along with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the Gentiles of the land to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.

  • Ezra 8:21
    72%

    21I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava so that we might humble ourselves before our God and seek from Him a safe journey for us, our children, and all our possessions.

  • Lev 23:27
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    27However, on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly, humble yourselves, and present a fire offering to the Lord.

  • Ezra 9:1
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    1When these things were completed, the officials approached me and said, 'The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not separated themselves from the surrounding peoples and their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.'

  • 2 Kgs 19:1
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    1When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 21:27
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    27When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went about meekly.

  • Joel 2:12
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    12Even now, declares the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

  • 1 Sam 7:6
    71%

    6When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day, they fasted and confessed, 'We have sinned against the LORD.' And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.

  • Joel 2:15
    71%

    15Blow the ram’s horn in Zion! Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly.

  • Josh 7:6
    71%

    6Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell face down to the ground before the ark of the Lord, remaining there until evening. The elders of Israel did the same and put dust on their heads.

  • Num 29:7
    70%

    7On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves. You shall do no regular work.

  • Lev 16:29
    70%

    29This shall be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you are to deny yourselves and do no work—whether native-born or a foreigner living among you.

  • Isa 58:5
    70%

    5Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?

  • Dan 9:15
    70%

    15Now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and made a name for Yourself that endures to this day, we have sinned and acted wickedly.

  • Ezra 8:23
    70%

    23So we fasted and prayed to our God about this, and He answered our prayer.

  • Isa 37:1
    70%

    1When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

  • Deut 9:25
    70%

    25So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, just as I had done before, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.

  • Neh 8:18
    70%

    18Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day, there was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

  • Dan 9:13
    70%

    13As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our sins and gaining insight into Your truth.

  • Esth 9:17-18
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    70%

    17This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day, they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.

    18But the Jews in Susa gathered on the thirteenth and fourteenth days and rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.

  • 1 Chr 9:1
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    1All Israel was registered in genealogies, and behold, they were written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

  • Hos 9:5
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    5What will you do on the day of your appointed festival, on the day of the LORD’s feast?

  • Lev 23:32
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    32It shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. It begins on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening you shall observe your Sabbath.

  • Ezra 6:19
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    19The exiles celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

  • Josh 9:5
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    5They wore patched and worn-out sandals and clothes, and all the bread they carried as provisions was dry and crumbled.

  • 2 Chr 7:9
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    9On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days more.