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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Est 4:16 — Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which [is] not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
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2Ch 20:3 |
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. |
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Isa 22:12 |
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: |
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Joe 1:14 |
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders [and] all the inhabitants of the land [into] the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, |
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Joe 1:15 |
Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. |
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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: |
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Joe 2:13 |
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he [is] gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. |
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Joe 2:14 |
Who knoweth [if] he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; [even] a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God? |
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Joe 2:15 |
Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: |
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Joe 2:16 |
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. |
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Joe 2:17 |
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where [is] their God? |
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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. |
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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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Jon 3:6 |
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. |
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Jon 3:7 |
And he caused [it] to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: |
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Jon 3:8 |
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands. |
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Jon 3:9 |
Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? |
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Est 5:1 |
Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on [her] royal [apparel], and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house. |
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Mat 12:40 |
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. |
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Act 9:9 |
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. |
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Act 27:33 |
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. |
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Gen 18:19 |
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. |
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Jos 24:15 |
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. |
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Act 10:7 |
And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually; |
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Gen 43:14 |
And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved [of my children], I am bereaved. |
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1Sa 19:5 |
For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest [it], and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause? |
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2Sa 10:12 |
Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good. |
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Luk 9:24 |
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. |
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Act 20:24 |
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. |
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Act 21:13 |
Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. |
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Rom 16:4 |
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. |
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Phl 2:30 |
Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Esther 4:16," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Est/4/16.html>.
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