FASTING in the Bible

-Observed on occasions of public calamities -Afflictions ; -Private afflictions -Approaching danger -Ordination of ministers ; 14:23 -Accompanied by prayer -Confession of sin ; ,2 -Humiliation ; -During forty days -Moses ,18 -Jesus ,2; ,13; ,2 -Habitual -By John's disciples -By Anna -By Pharisees ; ; -By Cornelius -By Paul ; 11:27 -In times of bereavement -Of the people of Jabesh-gilead, for Saul and his sons ; -Of David, at the time of Saul's death -Of Abner's death -Prolonged -For three weeks, by Daniel ,3 -For forty days, by Moses ; 34:28; ,18 -Elijah -Jesus -See HUMILIATION -See HUMILITY -UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO -23; ; 69:10; -7; ; ; ; 2:12,13; ; 8:19; -18; 9:14,15; 17:21; ,33,34; -INSTANCES OF -Of the Israelites -In the conflict between the other tribes with the tribe of Benjamin, on account of the wrong suffered by a Levite's concubine -When they went to Mizpeh for the ark of the covenant -Of David -Upon the death of Saul -During the sickness of the child born to him by Bath-sheba -22 -While interceding in prayer for his friends -In his zeal for Zion -In prayer for himself and his adversaries ,24 -Of Ahab, when Elijah prophesied the destruction of himself and his house ; with 20:29 -Of Jehoshaphat, at the time of the invasion of the confederated armies of the Canaanites and Syrians -Of Ezra, on account of the idolatrous marriages of the Jews -Of Nehemiah, on account of the desolation of Jerusalem and the temple -Of the Jews, when Jeremiah prophesied against Judea and Jerusalem -In Babylon, with prayer for divine deliverance and guidance ,23 -Of Darius, when he put Daniel in the lions' den -Of Daniel -On account of the captivity of the people, with prayer for their deliverance -At the time of his vision -3 -Ninevites, when Jonah preached to them -10 -By Paul, at the time of his conversion -Of the disciples, at the time of the consecration of Barnabas and Saul ,3 -Of the consecration of the elders