Esther 4:16 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁶ Go and assemble the Jews who are at Susoi and fast for me. You must neither eat nor drink for three days; night nor day; and as for me, I and my maids will fast likewise, and then I will go to the king contrary to law, though perhaps I must die.

¹⁹ For I know that he will command his children and his household after him, who are to keep the ways of the Lord, to execute judgment and justice, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham all that he hath spoken to him.

¹⁴ And may my God grant you favour in the sight of the man that he may send back your brother with Benjamin. As for me I am bereaved of children as I have been bereaved.

¹⁵ But if it seemeth not good to you to serve the Lord, chuse for yourselves this day whom you will serve, either the gods of your fathers which were in beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord; for he is holy.

⁵ For he hath put his life in his hands, and smitten the Philistines, and the Lord hath wrought a great deliverance, and all Israel have seen and rejoiced. Why then wilt thou sin against innocent blood by putting David to death without cause?

¹² Act manfully, and let us shew our courage for our people and for the cities of our God. And the Lord will do what is good in his sight.

³ Thereupon Josaphat was terrified, and set his face to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast through all Juda

¹ And on the third day Esther put on her royal apparel and stood in the inner court of the king's palace over against the king's house, when the king was sitting on his royal throne, in the royal house, over against the gate.

¹² Though the Lord of hosts, on that day, called for mourning, and lamentation, and for shaving of hair and girding with sackcloth,

¹⁴ Set apart a fast; proclaim a solemn service; assemble the elders; all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of your God, and cry to the Lord incessantly, ¹⁵ "Ah me! Ah me! Ah me! for the day." For the day of the Lord is at hand; and it will come like destruction on destruction.

¹² Now therefore saith the Lord your God, turn to me with your whole heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning. ¹³ Rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful, long suffering and full of compassion, and relenteth at evils. ¹⁴ Who knoweth but he will turn and relent, and leave behind him a blessing and a sacrifice and a libation for the Lord your God. ¹⁵ Sound the trumpet in Sion. Appoint a fast; proclaim a solemn act of worship. ¹⁶ Assemble the people; sanctify the congregation; choose elders. Bring together infants at the breast. Let the bridegroom come forth from his chamber and the bride from her wardrobe. ¹⁷ At the foot of the altar, let the priests who minister to the Lord, weep, and say, Spare, Lord, thy people; and give not up thy heritage to reproach; for the nations to rule over them. That they may not say among the nations, "Where is their God?"

⁴ And Jonas began at his entering the city, and for about one day's journey cried with a loud voice and said, "Yet three days and Ninive shall be destroyed" ⁵ And the men of Ninive believed God and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. ⁶ When the word reached the king of Ninive, he arose from his throne and stripped off his robes and clothed himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. ⁷ And proclamation was made and orders issued in Ninive from the king and from his nobles, saying, With regard to men and beasts, including herds and flocks, Let them not taste any thing; let them neither feed nor drink water. ⁸ So both men and beasts were covered with sackcloth; and there was an incessant cry to God; and every one turned from his evil way, and from the wickedness of their hands, saying, ⁹ "Who knoweth but God will relent and turn away from his fierce wrath, so that we may not perish.

⁴⁰ For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

²⁴ For whoever would save his life shall lose it. But whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, he shall save it.

⁹ And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

⁷ So when the angel who spoke to him was gone, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of them who waited on him continually,

²⁴ But I make no account of any of these, nor is this life of mine so much my concern as to finish with joy my course; even the office which I have received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the favour of God.

¹³ But Paul answered, Why make ye this ado, weeping and breaking my heart? As for me, I am ready, not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

³³ And while day was coming on, Paul advised them all to take some refreshment, saying, Longing for this fourteenth day you continue fasting, having taken nothing.

⁴ who for my life exposed their own; to whom not only I, but all the Gentile congregations also, owe thanks.

³⁰ because he was on the brink of death, for the work of the Christ, having exposed his life that he might supply the want of your religious service for me.