Fasting

Old Testament Fasting

Exodus 34:28 “28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.” (ESV)

Leviticus 23:27

The Day of Atonement

26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

27 “Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the Lord.

28 And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God.

29 For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people.

30 And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

31 You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

32 It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath.”

Deuteronomy 9:9

Judges 20:26

1 Samuel 1:7; 14:24; 20:34; 28:20; 31:13

2 Samuel 1:12; 3:35; 12:16; 21-23

I Kings 13:8-22; 19:8; 21:9-12,27

1 Chronicles 10:12

2 Chronicles 20:3

Ezra 8:21-23; 9:5; 10:6