Ezra 8:23
So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.
New Heart English Bible
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 that 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: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.
Esther 4:16"Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, 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 do not 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 →