Deuteronomy 9:18
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.
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- Exod 34:28 : 28 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.
- Deut 9:9 : 9 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.
- Ps 106:23 : 23 He threatened to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger.
- Exod 32:10-14 : 10 So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.” 11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians say,‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them,‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’” 14 Then the LORD relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.
- Deut 10:10 : 10 As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The LORD listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.
- 2 Sam 12:16 : 16 Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.
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- Deut 9:24-263 verses89%
24 You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!
25 Moses’ Plea on Behalf of God’s Reputation I lay flat on the ground before the LORD for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.
26 I prayed to him: O, Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your people, your valued property that you have powerfully redeemed, whom you brought out of Egypt by your strength.
- Deut 9:8-125 verses86%
8 At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.
9 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.
10 The LORD gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.
11 Now at the end of the forty days and nights the LORD presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
12 And he said to me,“Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.”
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28 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.
- Deut 9:19-224 verses80%
19 For I was terrified at the LORD’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.
20 The LORD was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him too.
21 As for your sinful thing that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
22 Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.
- Deut 9:15-173 verses77%
15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.
16 When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!
17 I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes.
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10 As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The LORD listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.
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8 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.
- Dan 10:2-32 verses71%
2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks.
3 I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, nor did I anoint myself with oil until the end of those three weeks.
- Dan 9:3-42 verses71%
3 So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
4 I prayed to the LORD my God, confessing in this way:“O Lord, great and awesome God who is faithful to his covenant with those who love him and keep his commandments,
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4 When I heard these things I sat down abruptly, crying and mourning for several days. I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
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6 You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer– all so that you might know that I am the LORD your God!
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18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
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16 This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the LORD your God:“Please do not make us hear the voice of the LORD our God any more or see this great fire any more lest we die.”
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1 The People Acknowledge Their Sin before God On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.
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9 For this is how I was commanded in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water. And do not return by the way you came.’”
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14 I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; I have obeyed you and have done everything you have commanded me.
- Num 11:19-202 verses68%
19 You will eat, not just one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,
20 but a whole month, until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick, because you have despised the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying,“Why did we ever come out of Egypt?”’”
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42 So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees.
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17 For an order came to me in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water there. And do not return by the way you came.’”
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7 We have behaved corruptly against you, not obeying the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments that you commanded your servant Moses.
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5 At the time of the evening offering I got up from my self-abasement, with my tunic and robe torn, and then dropped to my knees and spread my hands to the LORD my God.
- Deut 10:3-53 verses68%
3 So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
4 The LORD then wrote on the tablets the same words, the ten commandments, which he had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he gave them to me.
5 Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made– they are still there, just as the LORD commanded me.
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6 Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.
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22 You went back. You ate food. And you drank water in the place of which he had said to you,“Eat no food. Drink no water.” Therefore your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’”
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4 Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.
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19 ‘You displayed a sensitive spirit and humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard how I intended to make this place and its residents into an appalling example of an accursed people. You tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,’ says the LORD.
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2 Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
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19 When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.
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1 The Opportunity to Begin Again At that same time the LORD said to me,“Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.
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17 Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the LORD is about to give you.