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Description: 1 Kings 21:9
NET Translation: This is what she wrote: “Observe a time of Fasting and seat Naboth in front of the people.
DARBY Translation: And she wrote in the letter saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people;
KJV Translation: And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
Description: 1 Kings 21:12
NET Translation: They observed a time of Fasting and put Naboth in front of the people.
DARBY Translation: they proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people.
KJV Translation: They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
Keywords: God
Description: Nehemiah 1:4
NET Translation: 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.
DARBY Translation: And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat and wept, and mourned for days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of the heavens,
KJV Translation: And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned [certain] days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
Keywords: Children, Earth, Israel
Description: Nehemiah 9:1
NET Translation: On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were Fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.
DARBY Translation: And on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with Fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
KJV Translation: Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with Fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
Keywords: Decree, Sackcloth
Description: Esther 4:3
NET Translation: Throughout each and every province where the king’s edict and law were announced there was considerable mourning among the Jews, along with Fasting, weeping, and sorrow. Sackcloth and ashes were characteristic of many.
DARBY Translation: And in every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and Fasting, and weeping, and wailing: many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
KJV Translation: And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, [there was] great mourning among the Jews, and Fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Keywords: Ai, Esther, Mordecai, Purim, Urim
Description: Esther 9:31
NET Translation: to establish these days of Purim in their proper times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established, and just as they had established both for themselves and their descendants, matters pertaining to Fasting and lamentation.
DARBY Translation: to confirm these days of Purim in their fixed times, according as Mordecai the Jew and queen Esther had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, as to the matters of the Fastings and their cry.
KJV Translation: To confirm these days of Purim in their times [appointed], according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the Fastings and their cry.
Keywords: Soul
Description: Psalms 35:13
NET Translation: When they were sick, I wore sackcloth, and refrained from eating food. (If I am lying, may my prayers go unanswered.)
DARBY Translation: But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with Fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom:
KJV Translation: But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with Fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Keywords: Soul
Description: Psalms 69:10
NET Translation: I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.
DARBY Translation: And I wept, my soul was Fasting: that also was to my reproach;
KJV Translation: When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with Fasting, that was to my reproach.
Keywords: Flesh
Description: Psalms 109:24
NET Translation: I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.
DARBY Translation: My knees are failing through Fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;
KJV Translation: My knees are weak through Fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Keywords: Mite, Strife
Description: Isaiah 58:4
NET Translation: Look, your Fasting is accompanied by arguments, brawls, and fistfights. Do not fast as you do today, trying to make your voice heard in heaven.
DARBY Translation: Behold, ye have fasted for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness; ye do not at present fast, to cause your voice to be heard on high.
KJV Translation: Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Keywords: Afflict, Bow, Head, Man, Sackcloth, Table
Description: Isaiah 58:5
NET Translation: Is this really the kind of Fasting I want? Do I want a day when people merely humble themselves, bowing their heads like a reed and stretching out on sackcloth and ashes? Is this really what you call a fast, a day that is pleasing to the Lord?
DARBY Translation: Is such the fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul, that he should bow down his head as a bulrush, and spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? Wilt thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable to Jehovah?
KJV Translation: Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Keywords: Fasting, Halt, Judah
Description: Jeremiah 36:6
NET Translation: So you go there the next time all the people of Judah come in from their towns to fast in the Lord’s temple. Read out loud where all of them can hear you what I told you the Lord said, which you wrote in the scroll.
DARBY Translation: and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in the house of Jehovah upon the fast day; and thou shalt also read them in the ears of all Judah that come from their cities.
KJV Translation: Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the Fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
Keywords: King, Night, Sick, Sleep
Description: Daniel 6:18
NET Translation: Then the king departed to his palace. But he spent the night without eating, and no diversions were brought to him. He was unable to sleep.
DARBY Translation: Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night Fasting; neither were concubines brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.
KJV Translation: Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night Fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
Keywords: Seek
Description: Daniel 9:3
NET Translation: So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with Fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
DARBY Translation: And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with Fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;
KJV Translation: And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with Fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
Description: Joel 2:12
NET Translation: “Yet even now,” the Lord says, “return to me with all your heart—with Fasting, weeping, and mourning.
DARBY Translation: Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with Fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning;
KJV Translation: Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye [even] to me with all your heart, and with Fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Description: Zechariah 7:3
NET Translation: by asking both the priests of the temple of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies and the prophets, “Should we weep in the fifth month, Fasting as we have done over the years?”
DARBY Translation: [and] to speak unto the priests that were in the house of Jehovah of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done now so many years?
KJV Translation: [And] to speak unto the priests which [were] in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
Keywords: Ear
Description: Matthew 6:16
NET Translation: “When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them Fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward!
DARBY Translation: And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, downcast in countenance; for they disfigure their faces, so that they may appear Fasting to men: verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
KJV Translation: “Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.”
Keywords: Anoint
Description: Matthew 6:17
NET Translation: When you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
DARBY Translation: But *thou*, [when] Fasting, anoint thy head and wash thy face,
KJV Translation: “But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;”
Keywords: Ear, Reward
Description: Matthew 6:18
NET Translation: so that it will not be obvious to others when you are Fasting, but only to your Father who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
DARBY Translation: so that thou mayest not appear Fasting unto men, but to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who sees in secret shall render [it] to thee.
KJV Translation: “That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.”
Keywords: Called, Jesus
Description: Matthew 15:32
NET Translation: Then Jesus called his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way.”
DARBY Translation: But Jesus, having called his disciples to [him], said, I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat, and I would not send them away Fasting lest they should faint on the way.
KJV Translation: Then Jesus called his disciples [unto him], and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away Fasting, lest they faint in the way.”
Description: Matthew 17:21
NET Translation: ***Verse not present in NET Bible translation***
DARBY Translation: But this kind does not go out but by prayer and Fasting.
KJV Translation: “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and Fasting.”
Keywords: John
Description: Mark 2:18
NET Translation: Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were Fasting. So they came to Jesus and said, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”
DARBY Translation: And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were Fasting; and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and [the disciples] of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
KJV Translation: And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
Keywords: Fasting
Description: Mark 8:3
NET Translation: If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance.”
DARBY Translation: and if I should dismiss them to their home Fasting, they will faint on the way; for some of them are come from far.
KJV Translation: “And if I send them away Fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.”
Description: Mark 9:29
NET Translation: He told them, “This kind can come out only by prayer.”
DARBY Translation: And he said to them, This kind can go out by nothing but by prayer and Fasting.
KJV Translation: And he said unto them, “This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and Fasting.”
Keywords: Night, Widow
Description: Luke 2:37
NET Translation: She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with Fasting and prayer night and day.
DARBY Translation: and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with Fastings and prayers;
KJV Translation: And she [was] a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served [God] with Fastings and prayers night and day.
Keywords: Cornelius, Fasting, Man
Description: Acts 10:30
NET Translation: Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this very hour, at three o’clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and suddenly a man in shining clothing stood before me
DARBY Translation: And Cornelius said, Four days ago I had been [Fasting] unto this hour, and the ninth [I was] praying in my house, and lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
KJV Translation: And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was Fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
Keywords: Called, Saul, Work
Description: Acts 13:2
NET Translation: While they were serving the Lord and Fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
DARBY Translation: And as they were ministering to the Lord and Fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me now Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.
KJV Translation: As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
Description: Acts 14:23
NET Translation: When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and Fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed.
DARBY Translation: And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having prayed with Fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
KJV Translation: And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with Fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
Keywords: Paul
Description: Acts 27:33
NET Translation: As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day you have been in suspense and have gone without food; you have eaten nothing.
DARBY Translation: And while it was drawing on to daylight, Paul exhorted them all to partake of food, saying, Ye have passed the fourteenth day watching in expectation without taking food.
KJV Translation: And while the day was coming on, Paul besought [them] all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued Fasting, having taken nothing.
Keywords: Fasting, Satan, Tempt
Description: 1 Corinthians 7:5
NET Translation: Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
DARBY Translation: Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
KJV Translation: Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to Fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Description: 2 Corinthians 6:5
NET Translation: in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,
DARBY Translation: in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in Fastings,
KJV Translation: In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in Fastings;
Description: 2 Corinthians 11:27
NET Translation: in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.
DARBY Translation: in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in Fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
KJV Translation: In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in Fastings often, in cold and nakedness.