Ezra 8:23
And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 13:4But Joachaz besought the face of the Lord, and the Lord heard him: for he saw the distress of Israel, because the king of Syria had oppressed them:
2 Chronicles 33:12And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.
Ezra 8:31Then we set forward 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 delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
Esther 4:16Go, and gather together all the Jews whom thou shalt find in Susan, and pray ye for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like manner, and then I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger.
Proverbs 3:5Have confidence in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon thy own prudence.
Jeremiah 29:12And you shall call upon me, and you shall go: and you shall pray to me, and I will hear 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 →