So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.
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So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.
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So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
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So we fasted and besought our God for this; and He was entreated of us.
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Passages linked to Ezra 8:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 29:12-13 You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
- Matthew 7:7-8 “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
- 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.
- Ezra 8:31 Then 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 bandit by the way.
- Deuteronomy 4:29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- 1 Chronicles 5:20 They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.
- 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.”
- Isaiah 19:22 Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
- Daniel 9:3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
- Nehemiah 9:1 Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
- Psalms 66:18-20 If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened. But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me.
- Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
- Jeremiah 50:4-5 “In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God. They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’
- Luke 2:37 and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.
- Acts 10:30 Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Ezr 8:23 So we fasted and besought our God…
Ezr 8:23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
Ver. 23. So we fasted] They put their holy resolution into execution: purpose without practice is like Rachel, beautiful, but barren.
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And besought our God for this] And they had it, Ezr 8:31. For fasting and prayer are like Jonathan’s bow and Saul’s sword, that never turned back or returned empty, 2Sa 1:22. God is a liberal rewarder of all such as in this sort diligently seek him, Heb 11:6 2Ch 15:2. he will turn their fasting into feasting, their prayers into praises, Eze 36:37 Zec 8:19. They shall have out their prayers either in money or money’s worth; either in the very thing they desired, or at least strength to stay themselves upon God, with good assurance that his grace shall be sufficient for them, and that he will be their shield, and their exceeding great reward.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He gave us some assurance of his gracious answer…
He gave us some assurance of his gracious answer to our request.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then I separated twelve of the chief of the…
Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests,.... That were in company with him; so that it seems there were more than the two mentioned, Ezr 8:2, very probably their families, or some of their brethren, were with them:
Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them; these men named were Levites, and not priests, Ezr 8:18 and therefore the copulative "and" must be supplied:
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and Sherebiah, &c. or with the twelve priests, Sherebiah, &c. and ten Levites more with them; so that the number of priests and Levites were equal, and in all twenty four.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Intreated - He gave us an assurance of his…
Intreated - He gave us an assurance of his gracious answer to our request.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Ezr 8:23. And he was entreated of us —…
Ezr 8:23. And he was entreated of us — They had some comfortable assurance in their own minds that their prayers were answered; and the event showed that they were, for they escaped all the dangers they had been afraid of, and in due time arrived safe in Judea.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. for this] either prayed for this favour, or…
23. for this] either prayed for this favour, or as in Ezr_9:15, ‘because of this’, i.e. on the ground of this mingled faith and self-abasement.
and he was intreated of us] This phrase occurs also in Gen_25:21; 2Sa_21:14; 2Sa_24:25; 2Ch_33:13.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 8:23 fasted . . . prayed: In the Old…
8:23 fasted . . . prayed: In the Old Testament, fasting often accompanied prayer as a demonstration of need before God (1 Kgs 21:9; 2 Chr 20:3; Neh 1:4; Dan 9:3).
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