Lev 23:27, 2Ch 20:3, Neh 9:1, Est 4:16, Isa 58:1-3, Joe 1:13, 2:12-17 | TSK | STEP

Now.On the first of this month was the feast of trumpets; on the tenth, the day of atonement; on the fourteenth began the feast of tabernacles, which lasted seven days, ending on the twenty- second; on the twenty-third, they separated themselves from their illegitimate wives; and on the twenty-fourth, they held a solemn day of fasting and confession of sin, and reading the law; the whole of which they closed by renewing their covenants.

twenty.

Le 23:34,39; 2Ch 7:10

of this month.

8:2

children.

Jud 20:26; 2Ch 20:3; Ezr 8:23; Es 4:3,16; Isa 22:12; Joe 1:13,14,

Joe 2:15-17; Jon 3:5-8; Ac 13:2,3

earth.

Jos 7:6; 1Sa 4:12; 2Sa 1:2; Job 2:12

Esther 4:16

present. Heb. found. fast.

2Ch 20:3; Isa 22:12; Joe 1:14,15; 2:12-17; Jon 3:4-9

eat nor drink.

5:1; Mt 12:40; Ac 9:9; 27:33

I also.

Ge 18:19; Jos 24:15; Ac 10:7

if I perish.If I lose my life in the attempt to save my people, I shall lose it cheerfully. I see it is my duty to make the attempt; and, come what will, I am resolved to do it.

Ge 43:14; 1Sa 19:5; 2Sa 10:12; Lu 9:24; Ac 20:24; 21:13; Ro 16:4

Php 2:30

Isaiah 58:1-3

1 The prophet, being sent to reprove hypocrisy, shews the difference between a counterfeit fast and a true.

8 He declares what promises are due unto godliness,

13 and to the keeping of the sabbath.

aloud. Heb. with the throat. spare.

56:10; Ps 40:9,10; Jer 1:7-10,17-19; 7:8-11; 15:19,20; Eze 2:3-8

Eze 3:5-9,17-21; 20:4; 22:2; Mic 3:8-12; Mt 3:7-9; Ac 7:51,52

Ac 20:26,27; Tit 2:15; Re 14:9,10

lift up.

40:9,10

like.

27:13; Ho 8:1; Re 1:10; 4:1

they seek.

1:11-15; 29:13; 48:1,2; De 5:28,29; 1Sa 15:21-25; Pr 15:8

Eze 33:30-33; Mt 15:7-9; Mr 4:16,17; 6:20; Joh 5:35; Tit 1:16

Heb 6:4-6

they ask.

Jer 42:2,20; Mr 12:14; Jas 1:21,22; 1Pe 2:1,2

have we fasted.

Nu 23:4; Mic 3:9-11; Zec 7:5-7; Mal 3:14; Mt 20:11,12; Lu 15:29

Lu 18:9-12

afflicted.

Le 16:29,31; 23:27; Ps 69:10

in.

Da 10:2,3; Jon 3:6-8

exact.

Ne 5:7; Pr 28:9; Jer 34:9-17; Mt 18:28-35

labours. or, things wherewith ye grieve others. Heb.griefs.

47:6; Ex 2:23,24

Joel 1:13

Gird.

8,9; 2:17; Jer 4:8; 9:10; Eze 7:18

ye ministers.

1Co 9:13; Heb 7:13,14

lie.

2Sa 12:16; 1Ki 21:27; Jon 3:5-8

ye ministers.

Isa 61:6; 1Co 4:1; 2Co 3:6; 6:4; 11:23

for.

9; Le 2:8-10; Nu 29:6

Joel 2:12-17

turn.

De 4:29,30; 1Sa 7:3; 1Ki 8:47-49; 2Ch 6:38,39; 7:13,14; Isa 55:6,7

Jer 4:1; 29:12,13; La 3:40,41; Ho 6:1; 12:6; 14:1; Zec 1:3,4

Ac 26:20

with fasting.

Jud 20:26; 1Sa 7:6; 2Ch 20:3,4; Ne 9:1,2; Isa 22:12; Jon 3:5-8

Zec 7:3,5; 12:10-14; Jas 4:8,9

rend.Here the word "rend" is used only once, but with two significations; in the former sentence it is used figuratively; in the latter literally--the heart not being rent in the same sense in which garments are rent.

2Ki 22:19; Ps 34:18; 51:17; Isa 57:15; 66:2; Eze 9:4; Mt 5:3,4

your garments.

Ge 37:29,34; 2Sa 1:11; 1Ki 21:27; 2Ki 5:7; 6:30; 22:11; Job 1:20

Isa 58:5; Mt 6:16-18; 1Ti 4:8

for.

Ex 34:6,7; Nu 14:18; Ps 86:5,15; 145:7-9; Jon 4:2; Mic 7:18; Ro 2:4

Ro 5:20,21; Eph 2:4

slow.

Ne 9:17; Ps 103:8; Na 1:3; Jas 1:19,20

and repenteth.

Ps 106:45; Jer 18:7,8; Am 7:2-6; Jon 4:2

Who.