Bethel in the Days of Judges
1 dayFasting with weeping and sacrifice after devastating loss.
After a crushing defeat, Israel goes up to Bethel, weeps, fasts, and offers sacrifices. It shows fasting in collective grief, not as technique but as posture before God.
Scripture
Judges 20:26
26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.