Ezra 8:23
So we fasted and begged our God for this, and he granted our request.
World English Bible Catholic
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 13:4Jehoahaz begged the LORD, and the LORD listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.
2 Chronicles 33:12When he was in distress, he begged the 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. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandits by the way.
Esther 4:16“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
Proverbs 3:5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
Jeremiah 29:12You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen 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 →