"This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace." Cross References Luke 1:74 deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear, Luke 1:75 in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives. 2 Kings 25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. 2 Kings 25:4 Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king's garden. They headed toward the Arabah, 2 Kings 25:25 In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah. Psalm 30:11 You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, Isaiah 12:1 In that day you will say: "O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me. Jeremiah 36:6 so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities. Jeremiah 39:2 And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year, the city was breached. Jeremiah 52:4 So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. Jeremiah 52:12 On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. Zechariah 7:3 by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, "Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?" Zechariah 7:5 "Ask all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted? Zechariah 8:3 This is what the LORD says: "I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain." Zechariah 8:16 These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates, Zechariah 8:18 Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying, Treasury of Scripture Thus said the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace. the fourth. 2 Kings 25:3,4 Jeremiah 39:2 Jeremiah 52:6,7 the fifth. Zechariah 7:3 Jeremiah 52:12-15 the seventh. Zechariah 7:5 2 Kings 25:25 Jeremiah 41:1-3 the tenth. Jeremiah 52:4 joy. Esther 8:17 Esther 9:22 Psalm 30:11 feasts. Zechariah 8:16 Luke 1:74,75 |