Judg 20:26, 1Sa 7:6, 2Ch 20:3-4, Neh 9:1-2, Isa 22:12, Jon 3:5-8 | ESV | STEP | Then all the people of Israel , the whole army , went up and came to Bethel and wept . They sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening , and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord .

26 Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to ^aBethel and wept. They sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:6

6 So they gathered at ^bMizpah ^cand drew water and poured it out before the Lord ^dand fasted on that day and said there, ^e“We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.

2 Chronicles 20:3-4

3 Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face ^fto seek the Lord, and ^gproclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 4 And Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.

Nehemiah 9:1-2

The People of Israel Confess Their Sin

1 Now on the twenty-fourth day of ^hthis month the people of Israel were assembled ⁱwith fasting ^jand in sackcloth, ^kand with earth on their heads. 2 ^lAnd the Israelites ^{▼▼Hebrew the offspring of Israel} separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

Isaiah 22:12

12 In that day ⁿthe Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for ^obaldness and ^pwearing sackcloth;

Jonah 3:5-8

5 ^qAnd the people of Nineveh believed God. ^rThey called for a fast and ^sput on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

The People of Nineveh Repent

6 The word reached ^{▼▼Or had reached} the king of Nineveh, and ^uhe arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, ^vand sat in ashes. 7 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, ^w“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor ^xbeast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8 but let man and ^ybeast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. ^zLet everyone turn from his evil way and from ^aathe violence that is in his hands.