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1Sa 7:6 — And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured [it] out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

drew water		"Grotius says, that the pouring out of water means the shedding of tears; and the Targum reads, ""And they poured out their hearts in penitence, as waters, before the LORD."" Others suppose that it was done emblematically, to represent the contrition of their hearts, and their desire to wash away their past offences. But some learned men conceive that it was poured out as a libation, in token of joy, after they had fasted and confessed their sin, as they were wont to do in the feast of tabernacles. (See note on Num 29:35.) 1Sa 1:15; 2Sa 14:14; Job 16:20; Psa 6:6; Psa 42:3; Psa 119:136; Jer 9:1; Lam 2:11,18; Lam 3:49"
fasted		2Ch 20:3; Ezr 8:21-23; Neh 9:1-3; Dan 9:3-5; Joe 2:12; Jon 3:1-10
We have sinned		Lev 26:40; Jdg 10:10; 1Ki 8:47; Ezr 9:5-10; Job 33:27; Job 40:4; Job 42:6; Psa 38:3-8; Psa 106:6; Jer 3:13,14; Jer 31:19; Luk 15:18
judged		Jdg 3:10; Neh 9:27; Eze 20:4

Correlating Passages

drew water

	Num 29:35	On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work [therein]:
	1Sa 1:15	And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I [am] a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
	2Sa 14:14	For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
	Job 16:20	My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.
	Psa 6:6	I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
	Psa 42:3	My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God?
	Psa 119:136	Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
	Jer 9:1	Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
	Lam 2:11	Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
	Lam 2:18	Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
	Lam 3:49	Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

fasted

	2Ch 20:3	And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
	Ezr 8:21	Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
	Ezr 8:22	For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God [is] upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath [is] against all them that forsake him.
	Ezr 8:23	So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
	Neh 9:1	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.
	Neh 9:2	And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
	Neh 9:3	And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God [one] fourth part of the day; and [another] fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.
	Dan 9:3	And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
	Dan 9:4	And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
	Dan 9:5	We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
	Joe 2:12	Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye [even] to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
	Jon 3:1	And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
	Jon 3:2	Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
	Jon 3:3	So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
	Jon 3:4	And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
	Jon 3:5	So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
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We have sinned

	Lev 26:40	If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
	Jdg 10:10	And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
	1Ki 8:47	[Yet] if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
	Ezr 9:5	And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
	Ezr 9:6	And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over [our] head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
	Ezr 9:7	Since the days of our fathers [have] we [been] in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, [and] our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as [it is] this day.
	Ezr 9:8	And now for a little space grace hath been [shewed] from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
	Ezr 9:9	For we [were] bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
	Ezr 9:10	And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
	Job 33:27	He looketh upon men, and [if any] say, I have sinned, and perverted [that which was] right, and it profited me not;
	Job 40:4	Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
	Job 42:6	Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.
	Psa 38:3	[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.
	Psa 38:4	For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
	Psa 38:5	My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.
	Psa 38:6	I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
	Psa 38:7	For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh.
	Psa 38:8	I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
	Psa 106:6	We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
	Jer 3:13	Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
	Jer 3:14	Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
	Jer 31:19	Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
	Luk 15:18	I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

judged

	Jdg 3:10	And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.
	Neh 9:27	Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest [them] from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
	Eze 20:4	Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge [them]? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:

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