Fasting
The voluntary abstinence from food for spiritual purposes — prayer, repentance, seeking God's guidance, or preparing for ministry. Moses fasted forty days on Sinai (Exodus 34:28). David fasted when his child was ill (2 Samuel 12:16). Esther called a three-day fast before approaching the king (Esther 4:16). Jesus fasted forty days in the wilderness before his temptation (Matthew 4:1-2) and taught his disciples how to fast without hypocrisy (Matthew 6:16-18). The early church fasted before making important decisions (Acts 13:2-3, 14:23). Fasting expresses dependence on God and intensifies spiritual focus.
Verses about Fasting
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Yaratılış 20:18
For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
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Hakimler 4:21
Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fa…
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Hakimler 15:13
And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound h…
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Hakimler 16:11
And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
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Hakimler 20:26
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted tha…
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Rut 2:8
Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:
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Rut 2:21
And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
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Rut 2:23
So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.
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1. Samuel 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 again…
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1. Samuel 31:13
And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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2. Samuel 1:12
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel; b…
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2. Samuel 12:16
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
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2. Samuel 12:21
Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the chi…
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2. Samuel 12:22
And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
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2. Samuel 12:23
But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
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1. Krallar 21:9
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
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1. Krallar 21:12
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
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1. Krallar 21:27
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and w…
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2. Krallar 6:32
But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the …
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1. Tarihler 10:12
They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under…