Nehemiah 9:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

On the twenty-fourth day of this month  the Israelites assembled; they were fasting, wearing sackcloth, and had put dust on their heads.

Cross References

Nehemiah 8:2

On the first day of the seventh month,  the priest Ezra  brought the law  before the assembly of men, women, and all who could listen with understanding.

Ezra 8:23

So we fasted and pleaded with our God about this, and he was receptive to our prayer.

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell face down to the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening,  as did the elders of Israel; they all put dust on their heads.

1 Samuel 4:12

That same day, a Benjaminite man ran  from the battle and came to Shiloh. His clothes were torn,  and there was dirt on his head.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of Armies called for weeping,  for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.

Job 2:12

When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognise him. They wept aloud,  and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.

Esther 4:16

‘Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days,  night or day. I and my female servants will also fast  in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law.  If I perish, I perish.’

Esther 4:3

There was great mourning among the Jewish people in every province where the king’s command and edict  reached. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

2 Chronicles 20:3

Jehoshaphat was afraid, and he resolved  to seek the Lord. Then he proclaimed a fast  for all Judah,

2 Chronicles 7:10

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people home,  rejoicing and with happy hearts for the goodness the Lord had done for David, for Solomon, and for his people Israel.

2 Samuel 1:2

On the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head  came from Saul’s camp. When he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage.

Judges 20:26

The whole Israelite army went to Bethel where they wept and sat before the Lord.  They fasted that day until evening and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord.

Leviticus 23:39

‘You are to celebrate the Lord’s festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month for seven days after you have gathered the produce of the land. There will be complete rest on the first day and complete rest on the eighth day.

Leviticus 23:34

‘Tell the Israelites: The Festival of Shelters  , to the Lord begins on the fifteenth day of this seventh month and continues for seven days.

Revelation 11:3

I will grant  my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.’

1 Samuel 7:6

When they gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out in the Lord’s presence.  They fasted that day,  and there they confessed, ‘We have sinned against the Lord.’  And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.

Ezra 8:21

I proclaimed a fast  by the River Ahava,  so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us, our dependents, and all our possessions.

Joel 2:12

Even now – this is the  Lord’s declaration – turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.