Deuteronomy 9:18

New English Translation

Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:16

Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.

1 Kings 19:8

So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

Ezra 10:6

Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.

Psalm 106:23

He threatened to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger.

Exodus 34:28

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Exodus 34:9

and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Deuteronomy 10:10

As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The Lord listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:17

I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes.

Deuteronomy 9:25

I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.