Ezr 8:21¶ Then I proclaimed a fastH6685 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.
Neh 9:1Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fastingH6685, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
Est 4:3And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fastingH6685, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. ▼
Est 9:31To 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 fastingsH6685 and their cry. ▼
Psa 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fastingH6685; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. ▼
Isa 58:3¶ Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fastH6685 ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. ▼
Isa 58:5Is it such a fastH6685 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 fastH6685, and an acceptable day to the LORD? ▼
Isa 58:6Is not this the fastH6685 that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? ▼▼
Jer 36:6Therefore 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 fastingH6685 day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
Jer 36:9And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fastH6685 before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
Joe 1:14¶ Sanctify ye a fastH6685, 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, ▼
Zec 8:19Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fastH6685 of the fourth month, and the fastH6685 of the fifth, and the fastH6685 of the seventh, and the fastH6685 of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace. ▼