9 And she wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a ^xfast, and set Naboth at the head of the people.

Fasting and Prayer for Protection

21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.

9 In the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem ^dproclaimed a fast before the Lord.

5 ^cAnd the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.