The Prophets Fasted Moses: When I went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone...I was in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water. Deuteronomy 9:9 (LXX) Prophet Jonah: It was by fasting among other things that the people of Nineveh were saved from his prediction of peril. Jonah 3:7 (LXX) Prophet Joel: Fasting associated with repentance: “Now, says the Lord your God, turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting and with wailing, and with…