◄ Luke 2:37 ►
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New Revised Standard Version
then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped there with fasting and prayer night and day.

Contemporary English Version
And now she was 84 years old. Night and day she served God in the temple by praying and often going without eating.

New American Bible
and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she was a widow until fourscore and four years: who departed not from the temple, by fastings and prayers serving night and day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And she was a widow until fourscore and four years: who departed not from the temple, by fastings and prayers serving night and day.

which.

Exodus 38:8 He made also the laver of brass, with the foot thereof, of the mirrors of the women that watched at the door of the tabernacle.

1 Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other beside thee, and there is none strong like our God.

Psalm 23:6 And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.

Psalm 27:4 One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.

Psalm 84:4,10 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall praise thee for ever and ever. . . .

Psalm 92:13 They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

Psalm 135:1,2 Alleluia. Praise ye the name of the Lord: O you his servants, praise the Lord: . . .

Revelation 3:12 He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God: and he shall go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.

but.

Psalm 22:2 O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

Acts 26:7 Unto which, our twelve tribes, serving night and day, hope to come. For which hope, O king, I am accused by the Jews.

1 Timothy 5:5 But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God and continue in supplications and prayers night and day.

Revelation 7:15 Therefore, they are before the throne of God: and they serve him day and night in his temple. And he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell over them.

Context
The Prophecy of Anna
36And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser. She was far advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity. 37And she was a widow until fourscore and four years: who departed not from the temple, by fastings and prayers serving night and day. 38Now she, at the same hour, coming in, confessed to the Lord: and spoke of him to all that looked for the redemption of Israel.…
Cross References
Luke 5:33
And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink?

Acts 13:3
Then they fasting and praying and imposing their hands upon them, sent them away.

Acts 14:23
And when they had ordained to them priests in every church and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, in whom they believed.

1 Timothy 5:5
But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God and continue in supplications and prayers night and day.

Luke 2:36
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