Deuteronomy 9:18

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I fell down like the first time in the presence of the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and angering him.

Cross References

Exodus 34:28

Moses was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; he did not eat food or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments,  the words of the covenant, on the tablets.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant  the Lord made with you, I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights. I did not eat food or drink water.

2 Samuel 12:16

David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went home, and spent the night lying on the ground.

Deuteronomy 10:10

‘I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights like the first time. The Lord also listened to me on this occasion;  he agreed not to annihilate you.

Exodus 34:9

Then he said, ‘My Lord, if I have indeed found favour with you, my Lord, please go with us (even though this is a stiff-necked people), forgive our iniquity and our sin, and accept us as your own possession.’

Deuteronomy 9:17

So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:25

‘I fell down in the presence of the Lord for forty days and forty nights because the Lord had threatened to destroy you.

1 Kings 19:8

So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked for forty days and forty nights  to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Ezra 10:6

Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night.  He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.