1 Kings 21:27

27And when Ahab heard those words, he atore his clothes and bput sackcloth on his flesh and cfasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.

Esther 4:3

3And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, dwith fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them elay in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 6:17-18

17But when you fast, fanoint your head and wash your face, 18that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. gAnd your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

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