Three days Bible Study in ETRSF

(compiled and formatted by Bill Stevenson)

Note: What of the Bible should we take literally no matter what religious traditions we may have done
for many years? The Scriptures are from either the slightly modernized KJV version

Jonah 1:17
“And Jehovah had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.
And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”
Jonah 3:3
“And Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the Word of Jehovah.
And Nineveh was a very great city of three days' journey.”
Matthew 12:38-40
“38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered,
saying, ‘Master, we want to see a sign from you.’
39 But He answered and said to them, ‘An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign.
And there shall be no sign given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish,
so the Son of Man shall be three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth.’”

John 2:18-23
After Jesus Christ had forced the merchandisers out of the Jerusalem Temple,
“18 Then the Jews answered and said to Him, ‘What sign do you show us, since you do these things?’
19 Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up.’
20 Then the Jews said, ‘This temple was forty-six years building,
and will you rear it up in three days?’
21 But He spoke of the temple of His body.
22 Therefore when He had risen from the dead,
His disciples remembered that He had said this to them,
and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.
23 And as He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, at the feast,
many believed in His name when they saw the miracles which He did.”
Mark 8:29-31
“29 And He said to them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’
And Peter answered and said to Him, ‘You are the Christ.’
30 And He charged them that they should tell no one of Him.
31 And He began to teach them that The Son Of Man must suffer many things
and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and scribes,
and be killed,
and after three days rise again”.
Matthew 26:59-61
“59 And the chief priests and the elders and all the Sanhedrin sought false witness against Jesus,
in order to put Him to death.
60 But they found none; yea, though many false witnesses came, they found none.
But at last two false witnesses came up
61 and said, ‘This one said,
I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days.’”
Matthew 27:38-40
“38 Then two thieves were crucified with Him, one off the right, one off the left.
39 And those who passed by blasphemed Him, shaking their heads,
40 and saying, ‘You destroying the temple and building it in three days, save yourself.
If you are The Son Of God, come down from the cross.’

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 41 And in the same way also the chief priests mocked, with the scribes and elders, saying,
42 ‘He saved others, but he cannot save himself.
If he is The King Of Israel, let him now come down from the cross,
and we will believe him.
43 He trusted in God, let Him deliver Him now, if He will have Him.
(For He said, I am the Son of God.)’”
Matthew 27:62-66
“62 And on the next day, which was after the Preparation,
the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered to Pilate, saying,
63 ‘Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while He was living,
“After three days I will rise again.”
64 Then command that the tomb be made secure until the third day,
lest his disciples come by night and steal him away and say to the people,
“He has risen from the dead.”
So the last error will be worse than the first.’
65 Pilate said to them, ‘You have a watch. Go and make it as secure as you can.’
66 And going they made the tomb secure, sealing the stone along with the guard.”

***Comment: And now what does the rest of the Bible say about “three days”.
Genesis 30:36
“And he set three days' journey between himself (Laban) and Jacob.
And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.”

Genesis 40:9-13
“9 And the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him,
‘In my dream, behold, a vine was before me.
10 And in the vine were three branches.
And it was as if it budded, and its blossom shot up.
And the clusters of it brought forth ripe grapes.
11 And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand.
And I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup,
and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.’
12 And Joseph said to him,
‘This is the interpretation of it:
The three branches are three days.
13 Yet within three days Pharaoh shall lift up your head and restore you to your place.
And you shall deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand,
just as you did when you were his cupbearer.’”
***Comment: So the chief cupbearer was “raised” out of the prison within three days. Jesus Christ was
“raised from the tomb (that had a big stone and Roman soldiers in front of it for 3 days and 3 nights).

Genesis 40:16-18
“16 When the chief baker saw the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph,
‘I also saw in my dream,
and three baskets of white bread were on my head.
17 And in the top basket were all kinds of baked foods for Pharaoh.
And the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head.’
18 And Joseph answered and said,
‘This is the interpretation of it:
The three baskets are three days.
19 Yet within three days Pharaoh shall lift up your head from off you,
and shall hang you on a tree.
And the birds shall eat your flesh from off you.’”

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***Comment: So the chief baker was to horribly die within three days. Jesus Christ also had to
experience a horrible death.

Genesis 42:14-20
“14 And Joseph said to them, ‘That is what I spoke to you, saying, You are spies!
15 By this you shall be proved:
as Pharaoh lives you shall not go forth from here unless your youngest brother comes here.
16 Send one of you, and let him bring your brother,
and you shall be kept in prison so that your words may be proved,
whether any truth is in you.
Or else, as Pharaoh lives, surely you are spies.’
17 And he put them together into custody three days.
18 And Joseph said to them the third day,
‘Do this and live. I fear God.’
19 If you are honest, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your prison.
You go carry grain for the famine of your houses.
20 But bring your youngest brother to me,
and let your words be confirmed, be proved true, and you shall not die.’
And they did so.”
***Comment: Joseph’s brothers were “raised” out of the prison on the third day.

Exodus 3:15-18
“15 And God said to Moses again, ‘You shall say this to the sons of Israel,
Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
has sent me to you.
This is My name forever and this is My title from generation to generation.
16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel and say to them,
Jehovah the God of your fathers has appeared to me,
the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying,
I have surely visited you and have seen what is done to you in Egypt.
17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt
to the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites,
and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
to a land flowing with milk and honey.
18 And they shall listen to your voice.
And you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt.
And you shall say to him,
Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews has met with us.
And now let us go, we beseech you, three days' journey into the wilderness,
that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.’”
Exodus 5:1-3
“1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh,
‘Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel: Let My people go,
that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’
2 And Pharaoh said, ‘Who is Jehovah, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go?
I do not know Jehovah, neither will I let Israel go.’
3 And they said, ‘The God of the Hebrews has met with us.
Let us go, we pray you, three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice to Jehovah our God,
lest He fall upon us with plague or with the sword.’”
Exodus 8:27
Moses told Pharaoh,
“We will go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Jehovah our God,
as He shall command us.’”

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Exodus 10:22-23
“22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven.
And there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
23 They did not see one another, nor did any rise from his place, for three days.
But all the sons (and daughters) of Israel had light in their dwellings.”

Exodus 15:22
“And 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.”
Numbers 33:8
“And they pulled up stakes from before Pihahiroth
and passed through the middle of the Sea into the wilderness,
and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham,
and pitched in Marah.”

Numbers 10:33
“And they moved three days' journey from the mountain of Jehovah.
And the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah went before them in the three days' journey,
to look for a resting-place for them.”

Joshua 1:11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare food for yourselves, for
within three days you are crossing over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which Jehovah your God
is giving you to possess it.

Joshua 2:16 & 22-24

“16 And she (Rahab) said to them (the two Israelite spies sent by Joshua to Jericho),
‘Get up into the mountain lest the pursuers meet you.
And hide yourselves there three days until the pursuers have returned.
And afterward you may go your way.’”
22 And they went and came to the mountain,
and stayed there three days until the pursuers had returned.
And the pursuers looked for them throughout all the way, but did not find them.
23 And the two men returned and came down from the mountain, and passed over,
and came to Joshua the son of Nun.
And they told him all that happened to them.
24 And they said to Joshua,
‘Truly Jehovah has delivered all the land into our hands,
for even all those who live in the country faint because of us.’”

Joshua 3:1-2
“1 And Joshua rose early in the morning.
And they moved from Shittim and came to Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel,
and lodged there before they passed over.
2 And it happened after three days
the officers went into the midst of the camp.”

Joshua 9:9 & 15-16

“7 And the men of Israel said to the Hivites,
‘Perhaps you are living among us, and how shall we make a treaty with you?’
15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a treaty with them, to let them live.
And the rulers of the congregation swore to them.

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16 And it happened at the end of three days after they had made a treaty with them,
they heard that they were their neighbors and that they lived among them.”

Judges 19:1-5
“1 And it happened in those days, no king being in Israel,
there was a certain Levite residing on the far side of Mount Ephraim,
who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem-judah.
2 And his concubine played the harlot against him,
and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem-judah,
and was there four whole months.
3 And her husband arose and went after her, to speak friendly to her, to bring her again,
having his servant with him and a couple of asses.
And she brought him into her father's house.
And when the father of the girl saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
4 And his father-in-law, the girl's father, kept him.
And he stayed with him three days.
So they ate and drank and stayed there.
5 And it happened on the fourth day when they arose early in the morning,
he rose up to leave.
And the girl's father said to his son-in-law,
‘Comfort your heart with a piece of bread, and afterward go your way.’”

1 Samuel 9:19-20
“19 And Samuel answered Saul and said,
‘I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place.
For you shall eat with me today, and tomorrow I will let you go,
and will tell you all that is in your heart.
20 And as to the asses which were lost to you three days ago,
do not set your mind on them. For they are found.
And on whom is all the desire of Israel?
Is it not on you and on all your father's house?’”

1 Samuel 21:1-6
“1 And David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest.
And Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said to him,
‘Why are you alone, and no man with you?’
2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest,
‘The king has commanded me a business and has said to me,
Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have sent you.
And I have sent servants to such and such a place.
3 And therefore, what is under your hand?
Give five loaves of bread in my hand, or what there is to be found.’ (Matthew 14:17)
4 And the priest answered David and said, ‘There is no common bread under my hand,
but there is holy bread if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.’
5 And David answered the priest and said to him,
‘Truly women have been kept from us for about three days, since I came out,
and the vessels of the young men are holy,
and in a way the holy bread is common.
Also surely today it is sanctified in the vessels.’
6 And the priest gave him holy bread.
‘For there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence that was taken from before Jehovah,
in order to put hot bread in on the day when it was taken away.”

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1 Samuel 30:10-18
“10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men.
For two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to go over the brook Besor.
11 And they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David
and gave him bread, and he ate. And they made him drink water.
12 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 water for three days and three nights.
13 And David said to him, ‘Whose are you? And where do you come from?’
And he said, I am an Egyptian youth, servant to an Amalekite.
And my master left me because three days ago I fell sick.
14 We raided the south of the Cherethites, and on that belonging to Judah,
and on the south of Caleb. And we burned Ziklag with fire.’”
15 And David said to him, ‘Can you bring me down to this company?’
And he said,
‘Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me nor deliver me into the hands of my master,
and I will bring you down to this company.’
16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad on all the earth,
eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken
out of the land of the Philistines and out of the land of Judah.
17 And David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day.
And not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.
18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away.
And David rescued his two wives.”
***Comment: Jesus 11 main disciples were not able to see Him again until after three days and three
nights. They actually became spiritually hungry and spiritually sick (with fear).

2 Kings 2:15-17
“15 And when the sons of the prophets across in Jericho saw him,
they said, ‘The spirit of Elijah rests upon Elisha!’
And they came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.
16 And they said to him, ‘Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men.
Please let them go and seek your master,
lest The Spirit Of Jehovah has taken him up
and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley.’
And he said, ‘You shall not send.’
17 And they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, ‘Send.’
And they sent fifty men.
And they looked for three days, but did not find him.”

2 Samuel 24:10-15
“10 And David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people.
And David said to Jehovah, ‘I have sinned greatly in what I have done.
And now, I beseech You, O Jehovah, take away the iniquity of Your servant,
for I have done very foolishly.’
11 And David rose up in the morning.
And the Word of Jehovah came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
12 ‘Go and say to David, So says Jehovah, I offer you three things.
Choose one of them, so that I may do it to you.’
13 And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him,
‘Shall seven years of famine come upon you and on your land?
Or will you flee three months before your enemies while they pursue you?
Or shall there be three days' plague in your land?
And advise, and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.’

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 14 And David said to Gad, ‘I am in great distress.
Let us fall now into the hand of Jehovah, for His mercies are great.
And do not let me fall into the hand of man.
15 And Jehovah sent a plague upon Israel from the morning even till the time appointed.
And there died from the people, from Dan to Beer-sheba, seventy thousand men.”

1 Chronicles 12:38-40
“38 All these were men of war, keeping rank,
they came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over Israel.
And also all the rest of Israel was of one heart to make David king.
39 And they were with David three days, eating and drinking.
For their brothers had prepared food for them.
40 And also those who were near them, even to Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali,
brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen.
And they brought food, meal, cakes of figs and bunches of raisins, and wine and oil,
and oxen and sheep abundantly. For there was joy in Israel.”

Ezra 10:6-9
“6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God
and went into the room of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
And he went there, and he ate no bread nor drank water.
For he mourned because of the sin of those who had been exiled.
7 And they made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the sons of the captivity,
to gather themselves to Jerusalem,
8 and that who ever would not come within three days,
according to the advice of the rulers and the elders,
all he owned would be lost,
and he himself separated from the congregation of the exiles.
9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves to Jerusalem within three days.
It was the ninth month, on the twentieth 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.”
***Comment: Ten of the Disciples of Jesus Christ gathered together within three days of His death.

Esther 4:13-17
“13 And Mordecai commanded them (Hatachto and the king’s servants) answer Esther,
‘Do not think within yourself that you shall escape in the king's house more than all the Jews.
14 For if you are completely silent at this time,
relief and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place,
but you and your father's house shall be destroyed.
And who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for a time like this?’
15 And Esther said to return to Mordecai this answer,
16 ‘Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan,
and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, night or day.
My maidservants and I will also fast in the same way.
And so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law.
And if I perish, I perish.’
17 And Mordecai went his way
and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.”

Luke 2:46
“And it happened that after three days they found Him in the Temple,
sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them.”

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Matthew 15:29-32
“29 And moving from there Jesus came beside the Sea of Galilee.
And He went up into a mountain and sat there.
30 And great crowds came to Him,
having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others.
And they cast them down at Jesus' feet. And He healed them,
31 so much so that the crowd wondered when they saw the dumb speak,
the maimed sound, the lame walk, and the blind see.
And they glorified the God of Israel.
32 Then Jesus called His disciples and said,
‘I have compassion on the crowd because they continue with Me for three days now
and have nothing to eat.
And I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.’”
Acts 9:8-9
After seeing Jesus Christ,
“8 And Saul was lifted up from the earth, his eyes were opened, but he saw no one.
But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.
9 And he was three days not seeing, and did not eat or drink.”
Acts 28:7, & 12, & 17-20
“7 In the quarters about that place were lands to the chief of the island, whose name was Publius.
Welcoming us, he lodged us courteously three days.
12 And landing at Syracuse, we stayed three days.
17 And after three days it happened that Paul called together those being chief of the Jews.
And they coming together, he said to them,
‘Men, brothers, I did nothing against the people or customs of our fathers.
I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans
18 who, examining me, were of a mind to let me go
because there was no cause of death in me.
19 But the Jews speaking against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar,
not as having anything to accuse my nation.
20 For this cause, then, I called for you, to see and to speak with you.
For I have this chain around me for the hope of Israel.’”

***Comment: a multiple of three:

Leviticus 12:4
“And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying thirty-three days.
She shall touch no holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary,
until the days of her purifying are fulfilled.”
Judges 14:12-14
“12 And Samson said to them, ‘I will now put forth a riddle to you.
If you certainly tell it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out,
then I will give you thirty linen blouses and thirty changes of garments.
13 But if you cannot tell me,
then you shall give me thirty linen blouses and thirty changes of garments.’
And they said to him, ‘Put forth your riddle so that we may hear it.’
14 And he said to them, ‘Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.’
And in three days they were not able to declare the riddle.”
Ezekiel 4:5 & 9
“5 For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days,
three hundred and ninety days.
So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
9 Take also to yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt,
and put them in one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself.

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 According to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side,
three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat of it.”
Daniel 12:11-13
“11 ‘And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away,
and the desolating abomination set up,
a thousand two hundred and ninety days shall occur.
12 Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
13 But you go on to the end, for you shall rest and stand in your lot at the end of the days.’”
Galatians 1:18
“Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter,
and stayed with him fifteen days.”