1Ki 21:27, Isa 58:3-5, Zec 7:3-5, Mal 3:14, Mat 6:2, 5, Mar 2:18 | ESV | STEP | And when Ahab heard those words , he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly .

m[See ver. 3 above]

n[2 Kgs. 25:25]

oSee ch. 1:12

p[Isa. 58:4, 5]

w Mark 11:25; Luke 18:11

x ver. 2, 16

y Matt. 11:2; 14:12; Luke 11:1; John 1:35; 3:25; 4:1; [Acts 18:25; 19:3]

z[ch. 7:5]

aa Luke 18:12

1 Kings 21:27

27 And 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.

Isaiah 58:3-5

3 ^d‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, ^{▼▼Or pursue your own business}
^fand oppress all your workers.
4 Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to hit with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
will not make your voice to be heard on high.
5 ^gIs such the fast that I choose,
^ha day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the Lord?

Zechariah 7:3-5

3 ⁱsaying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and ^jthe prophets, “Should I weep and ^kabstain in ^lthe fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: 5 “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in ^mthe fifth month and in ⁿthe seventh, for these ^oseventy years, ^pwas it ^qfor me that you fasted?

Malachi 3:14

14 You have said, ^r‘It is vain to serve God. ^sWhat is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?

Matthew 6:2

2 ^t“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may ^ube praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have ^vreceived their reward.

Matthew 6:5

The Lord’s Prayer

5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love ^wto stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. ^xTruly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Mark 2:18

A Question About Fasting

18 Now ^yJohn’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, ^z“Why do John’s disciples and ^aathe disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”