Bible Cross References
have we fasted
Numbers 23:4
And God met Balaam, and he said to Him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.
Micah 3:9-11
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Now hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, you who abhor justice and pervert all equity,
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who build up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity:
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Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for money; yet they lean on Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come upon us.
Zechariah 7:5-7
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Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years, did you truly fast to Me, even to Me?
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And when you ate, and when you drank, did you not eat and drink for yourselves?
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Are not these the Words which Jehovah proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem with her cities all around her were inhabited and prosperous, and the south and the lowlands were inhabited?
Malachi 3:14
You have said, It is vain to serve God. And, What profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before Jehovah of Hosts?
Matthew 20:11
And when they had received it, they murmured against the landowner,
Matthew 20:12
saying, These last men have worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day.
Luke 15:29
So he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.
Luke 18:9-12
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Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
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Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
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The Pharisee stood and prayed thus to himself, God, I thank You that I am not like other men; extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
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I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.
afflicted
Leviticus 16:29
This shall be a perpetual statute for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work, whether a native or a stranger who sojourns among you.
Leviticus 16:31
It is a sabbath observance of rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a perpetual statute.
Leviticus 23:27
Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be a Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and bring an offering by fire unto Jehovah.
Psalm 69:10
When I wept in my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
in
Daniel 10:2
In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks.
Daniel 10:3
I ate no pleasant food, and no flesh or wine came into my mouth. I did not anoint myself at all until three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Jonah 3:6-8
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And the word reached even to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.
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And he cried and proclaimed in Nineveh by the decree of the king and of his nobles, saying, Do not let man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them feed nor let them drink water.
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But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. And let them call mightily to God. And let them each one turn from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
exact
Nehemiah 5:7
After serious thought, I rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, Each of you is exacting usury from his brother. So I appointed a great assembly against them.
Proverbs 28:9
He who turns away his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Jeremiah 34:9-17
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that each man should let his male slave, and each man his female slave, if they were a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, to go free; that no one should keep a Jewish brother enslaved.
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And all the rulers obeyed, and all the people who had entered into the covenant allowed them to go free, each man his male slave, and each man his female slave, so that no one should be enslaved among them any more; and they obeyed and let them go.
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But afterward they changed their minds and caused the slaves and slave women whom they had let go free, to return! And they subjected them as slaves and slave women.
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Therefore the Word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
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Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying,
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At the end of seven years let each man free his brother, a Hebrew, who has been sold to him. And when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you. But your fathers did not heed me, nor extend their ears.
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And you had turned today, and had done what was right in My eyes proclaiming liberty, each man to his neighbor. And you had made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.
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But you turned and violated My name, and each man caused his slave, and each man his slave woman, whom you had set free to do as they pleased, to return. And you brought them back into bondage to be slaves and slave women to you.
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Therefore thus says Jehovah: You have not heeded Me to proclaim liberty each man to his brother, and each man to his neighbor! Behold, I proclaim liberty for you, says Jehovah, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. And I will cause you to be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Matthew 18:28-35
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But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me what you owe!
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So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.
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And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt.
31
So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done.
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Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.
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Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?
34
And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay every bit that was due to him.
35
Thus My Heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.
labours
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with My people, I have polluted My inheritance, and given them into your hand. You have shown them no mercy; upon the aged you have laid your yoke very heavily.
Exodus 2:23
And it came to pass after many days that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Exodus 2:24
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.