Ezra 8:23
So we fasted and besought our God for this, and he was entreated by us.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 13:4And Jehoahaz besought LORD, and LORD hearkened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.
2 Chronicles 33:12And when he was in distress, he besought LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Ezra 8:31Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. And the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the ambushment by the way.
Esther 4:16Go, 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 in like manner. And so I will go in to the king, which is not acc
Proverbs 3:5Trust in LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding.
Jeremiah 29:12And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray to me, and I will hearken to you.
Matthew Henry on Ezra 8:22-24
Ezra's Fast. ( b. c. 457.) 21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. 22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. 23 So we… Read the whole commentary →