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Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
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In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover.
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And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.
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And you shall fasten it on the turban by a cord of blue. It shall be on the front of the turban.
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He cast for it four rings of gold and fastened the rings to the four corners at its four legs.
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And they tied to it a cord of blue to fasten it on the turban above, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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And every open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean.
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“Then you answered me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.
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But you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today.
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You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear.
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For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him,
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You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.
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loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
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But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.
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Then Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”
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Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
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So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the Lord and fasted on that day and said there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.
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They put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
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And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.
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And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
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David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.
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Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”
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He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’
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But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
