Three Days

• Longevity

And all the days of Enoch were Three hundred sixty and five years:

And he set Three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The Three branches are Three days:

Yet within Three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The Three baskets are Three days:

Yet within Three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

And he put them all together into ward Three days.

• Government

And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, Three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, Three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

We will go Three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.

And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt Three days:

They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for Three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went Three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying Three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.

• Ark

And they departed from the mount of the LORD Three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the Three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.

And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went Three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.

Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within Three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.

And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there Three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there Three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.

And it came to pass after Three days, that the officers went through the host;

And it came to pass at the end of Three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.

And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in Three days expound the riddle.

And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him Three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.

And as for thine asses that were lost Three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?

And when thou hast stayed Three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these Three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.

• Food

And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, Three days and Three nights.

• Servant

And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because Three days agone I fell sick.

Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within Three days, and be thou here present.

• Famine

Then there was a famine in the days of David Three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

• Reproof
• Seven

So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee Three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be Three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and Three years reigned he in Jerusalem.

And he said unto them, Depart yet for Three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.

And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought Three days, but found him not.

In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant Three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

And there they were with David Three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.

Either Three years' famine; or Three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else Three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

And he said unto them, Come again unto me after Three days. And the people departed.

And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were Three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.

Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned Three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents Three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there Three days.

• Government

And that whosoever would not come within Three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within Three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

So I came to Jerusalem, and was there Three days.

• Courage
• ESTHER
• Decision

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink Three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, Three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, Three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and Three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

In those days I Daniel was mourning Three full weeks.

• Waiting

Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand Three hundred and five and thirty days.

• Fish
• Miracles

Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish Three days and Three nights.

• Jonah
• Obedience

So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of Three days' journey.

• Fish
• Jonah
• Resurrection

For as Jonas was Three days and Three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be Three days and Three nights in the heart of the earth.

Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now Three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

• Indictments
• Temple

And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in Three days.

• Temple

And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in Three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

• Blasphemy

Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After Three days I will rise again.

I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me Three days, and have nothing to eat:

• Holy
• Angel
• Angel

And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after Three days rise again. And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men. And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. read more For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. show less

• Jesus
• Blasphemy
• Indictments

We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within Three days I will build another made without hands.

And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in Three days,

• Temple

And it came to pass, that after Three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up Three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

• Concerning
• Power
• Temple

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in Three days I will raise it up.

• Temple

Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in Three days?

• Fasting

And he was Three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.

And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and Three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

Now when Festus was come into the province, after Three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us Three days courteously.

And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there Three days.

And it came to pass, that after Three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Then after Three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

• Burial

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies Three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

And after Three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.