3 DAY PERIODS IN THE BIBLE

Disclosing the Past—Foretelling the Future

Below are historical 3 day periods in the Word of God, which may indicate future 3 day waiting periods for final events to begin when God's Hebrew Calendar of end-time begins.

Waiting In Suspense For Reward Or Judgment: Chief Butler Rewarded After 3 Days; Chief Baker Judged After 3 Days

Genesis 40:13: Joseph prophesied to the chief butler, “Within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place."  Genesis 40:19-22: Joseph prophesied to the chief baker. “Yet within three days shall Pharoah lift up thy head from off thee.. . And it came to pass the third day . . he restored the chief butler . . but he hanged the chief baker.”

Waiting In Suspense For Release Or Judgment: Joseph Puts His Brothers In Custody For 3 Days

Genesis 42:17-18: “And he put them all together into ward [custody] three days. And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do and live: for I fear God.”

Journey To Meet With God: God Directs Moses To Lead Children Of Israel 3 Days Journey Into Wilderness

Exodus 4:18: 5:3: 8:27; 15:22: “Thou shalt come... unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrew 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 sword. We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as He shall command us. 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.”

Plague Of Darkness In Egypt 3 Days

Exodus 10:21-22: “And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward Heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. 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.”

Waiting For Passage Into The Promise Land 3 Days

Joshua 1:11; 3:2-3: “Pass through the host [camp], and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days you shall pass over this Jordon, to go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God giveth you to possess. . . The Lord your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land. And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host: and they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord your God... then ye shall... go after it [into the Promise Land].”

Spies Hidden For 3 Days While Danger Passed

Joshua 2:16, 22: “And she [Rahab] 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.”

3 Days Prelude To Samuel’s Anointing of Saul As King

1 Samuel 9:20; 10:1-2: “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 they father’s house? Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the Lord bath anointed thee to be captain over His inheritance?... The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?”

Egyptian Master Leaves Frail Servant To Die Without Food or Water For 3 Days: David Saves The Servant From Sure Death

1 Samuel 30:12-13: “And they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David... and gave him [food]: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights... And he said... my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.’

God’s Anger Against Israel: 3 Days Pestilence Kills 70,000 Men: Jerusalem Almost Destroyed

2 Samuel 24:1, 15: “And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel... So the Lord sent a [three day’s] pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people... seventy thousand men. And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand.

Enemy Defeated: Jehoshaphet And People Gather Spoil 3 Days

2 Chronicles 20:25-30: “When Jehoshaphat and his people came... they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.  And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley and blessed the Lord. Then they returned, every man of Judah to Jerusalem with joy: for the Lord had made them to rejoice over their enemies... So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.”

Ezra Proclaims A Gathering To Jerusalem Within 3 Days: Whoever Did Not Come Would Be Cut Off

Ezra 10:7-9: “And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem: 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... then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days.”

Nehemiah Examines Jerusalem's Damage For 3 Days

Nehemiah 2:11-13: "I went to Jerusalem, and after staying there three days, I set out during the night with a few men. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no mounts with me except the one I was riding on. By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal.  Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire.

Esther And Jews Fast To Gain Favor With The King

Esther 4:6; 5:1-2: “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. Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house... [and] when the king saw Esther... she obtained favor in his sight”

Jonah 3 Days And Nights In Darkness Of The Deep, Then Salvation And Resurrection

Jonah 1:17; 2:6: "Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.” Jonah was saved and he declared, “Yet, hast Thou brought up my life from corruption, 0 Lord my God.”

Jonah Warns Nineveh For 3 Days Of Pending Disaster

Jonah 3:3: “Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days journey.  And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.”

Jesus In Darkness Of Death 3 Days, Then Resurrected

Matthew 26:61: 27:62-64: 28:6: Jesus said, “I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.”  The “Pharisees came together unto Pilate, Saying, Sir, we remember that deceiver said, while He was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day.” Nonetheless, the angel of the Lord declared, “He is risen.”

Paul Blinded In Darkness For 3 Days, Consuming No Food Or Drink, Then Sight Restored

Acts 9:9, 19: “And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink” Ananias laid His hands on him, “And immediately there fell from his eves as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.”

The Prophetic 3 Days

3 Days Of Reflective Waiting After Shushan Purim, Passover & Tisha B'Av For The Counting Times To Begin

Resurrection Of Saints On Third Day

Hosea 6:1-3: “Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us: He hath smitten, and He will bind us up After two days will He revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord:  His going forth is prepared as the morning [as the rising sun]: and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth [heavy rain fall].”

After 3 Days The Two Witnesses Are Raised To Life

Time of Dead To Be Rewarded And To Destroy Wicked 

Revelation 11:11,18: ^"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... And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth."