Verse 21

And euen there at the water beside Ahaua I proclaymed a fast, that we might humble our selues before our God, and seke of hym a right way for vs, and for our children, and for all our substaunce.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 20:3 : 3 And Iehosaphat feared, & set him selfe to seke the Lorde: and proclaymed fasting throughout all Iuda.
  • Lev 16:29 : 29 And this shalbe an ordinaunce for euer vnto you: that in the tenth day of the seuenth moneth ye humble your soules, and do no worke at all, whether it be one of your owne countrey, or a straunger that soiourneth among you.
  • Lev 23:29 : 29 For whatsoeuer soule it be that humbleth not hym selfe that day, he shalbe cut of from among his people.
  • 1 Sam 7:6 : 6 And they gathered together to Mispah, and drewe water, and poured it out before the Lorde, and fasted the same day, and sayd there: We haue sinned against the Lorde. And Samuel iudged the children of Israel in Mispah.
  • Joel 1:14 : 14 Proclayme a fast, call a congregation, gather the elders together, with all the inhabitauntes of the lande vnto the house of the Lorde your God, and crye vnto the Lorde,
  • Ezra 8:15 : 15 And I gathered them together by the water that runneth towarde Ahaua, and there abode we three dayes: And I loked among the people and the priestes, and founde there none of the children of Leui.
  • Ps 5:8 : 8 Leade me O God in thy righteousnesse, because of myne enemies: make thy way playne before my face.
  • Ps 8:2 : 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklinges thou hast layde the foundation of thy strength for thyne aduersaries sake: that thou mightest styll the enemie and the auenger.
  • Ps 107:2-8 : 2 Let such as God did redeme speake: whom he hath redeemed from the hande of the enemie. 3 And whom he gathered out of the landes: from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. 4 They went astray out of the way in solitarines and in wildernes, and found no citie to dwell in: 5 they were hungry and thirstie, their soule fainted in them. 6 And they cry vnto god in their trouble: who deliuereth them from their distresse. 7 And he leadeth them foorth by the right way: that they might go to the citie inhabited. 8 O that men would confesse vnto God his louyng kindnesse: and his marueylous actes done to the chyldren of men.
  • Ps 143:8-9 : 8 Cause me to heare of thy louyng kindnesse betymes in the mornyng: for in thee is my trust. Make me to knowe the way that I shoulde walke in: for I lyft vp my soule vnto thee. 9 Delyuer me O God from myne enemies: I hyde my selfe with thee. 10 Teache me to do the thyng that pleaseth thee, for thou art my Lorde: let thy good spirite leade me foorth vnto the lande of ryghteousnesse.
  • Prov 3:6 : 6 In all thy wayes acknowledge him, and he shall order thy goynges.
  • Isa 30:21 : 21 Yea and thyne eare shall heare the talking of him that doth speake behinde thee: This is the way, walke ye in it, turne not aside neither to the right hande, nor to the left.
  • Isa 35:8 : 8 There shalbe foote pathes & common streetes, this shalbe called the holy way: no vncleane person shall go through it, for the Lorde hym selfe shall go with them that way, and the wayfayrer nor ignoraunt shall not erre.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 I wyll bryng the blinde into a streete that they know not, and leade them into a foote path that they are ignoraunt in: I shall make darknesse light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight: These things haue I done vnto them, and not forsaken them.
  • Isa 49:10 : 10 They shall neither hunger nor thirst, heate nor sunne shall not hurt them: for he that fauoureth them shall leade them, and geue them drynke of the well sprynges.
  • Isa 58:3 : 3 Wherefore fast we say they and thou seest it not? we put our liues to straitnesse, and thou regardest it not?
  • Isa 58:5 : 5 Thinke ye this fast pleaseth me, that a man shoulde chasten hym selfe for a day? and to hang downe his head like a bulrushe, and to lye vpon the earth in an heerie cloth? Should that be called fasting, or a day that pleaseth the Lord?
  • Jer 10:23 : 23 Nowe I knowe (O Lord) that it is not in mans power to order his owne wayes, or to rule his owne steppes and goinges.
  • Jer 31:8-9 : 8 Beholde, I wyll bryng them agayne from out of the north lande, and gather them from the endes of the worlde, with the blynde & lame that are among them, with the women that be great with chylde, & such as be also deliuered: and the companie of them that come agayne shalbe great. 9 They shall come weepyng, and with mercifull pitie will I bring them hither agayne: I will leade them to the riuers of water in a strayght way where they shall not stumble: For I am Israels father, and Ephraim is my first borne.
  • Jer 50:4-5 : 4 In those dayes, and at that tyme saith the Lorde, the chyldren of Israel shall come, they and the children of Iuda, weeping and making haste, and shal seeke the Lorde their God. 5 They shall aske the way to Sion, thither shall they turne their faces, saying: Come, and we wyll cleaue to the Lorde in a couenaunt that neuer shalbe broken.
  • Ezra 8:31 : 31 And we brake vp from the water of Ahaua on the twelfth day of the first moneth, to go vnto Hierusalem: and the hande of our God was vpon vs, and deliuered vs from the hande of the enemies, and of such as layed wayte for vs by the way.
  • Lev 16:31 : 31 Let it be a Sabbath of rest vnto you, and ye shall humble your soules by an ordinaunce for euer.
  • Num 14:3 : 3 Wherfore hath the Lorde brought vs vnto this lande to fall vpon the sworde, and that our wyues and our chyldren should be a pray? Were it not better that we returne vnto Egypt agayne?
  • Num 14:31 : 31 But your chyldren whiche ye sayde shoulde be a pray, them I wyll bryng in, and they shall knowe the lande whiche ye haue refused.
  • Judg 20:26 : 26 Then al the children of Israel, and all the people, went vp and came vnto the house of God, and wept, and sate there before the Lord, and fasted the same day vnto euen, and offered burnt offerynges and peace offerynges before the Lorde.
  • Joel 2:12-18 : 12 But nowe saith ye Lord, turne you vnto me with all your heartes, with fasting, with weepyng, and with mournyng. 13 And rent your heartes and not your garmentes, & turne you vnto the Lorde your God, for he is gratious & mercifull, slowe to anger, and of great goodnesse, and he wyll repent him of the euyll. 14 Who knoweth whether the Lorde wyll returne and take compassion, and wyll leaue behinde him a blessing, euen meate offeryng and drynke offeryng vnto the Lorde your God? 15 Blowe vp a trumpet in Sion, proclayme a fast, call an assemblye, sanctifie the congregation. 16 Gather the people, gather the elders, assemble the children & suckyng babes: let the bridegrome come foorth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 17 Let the priestes the Lordes ministers weepe betwixt the porche & the aulter, and let them say, Spare thy people O Lord, and geue not ouer thine heritage to reproche, that the heathen shoulde rule ouer them: Wherfore shoulde they say amongst the heathen, Where is their God? 18 And then the Lorde wyll be ielous ouer his lande, & wyll spare his people.
  • Jonah 3:5 : 5 And the men of Niniue beleued God, and proclaymed a fast, and put on sackecloth from the greatest of them to the leaste of them.
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 For the promise was made vnto you, and to your chyldren, and to all that are a farre of, euen as many as the Lorde our God shall call.
  • Mark 10:13-16 : 13 And they brought young chyldren to hym, that he shoulde touche them: And his disciples rebuked those that brought them. 14 But when Iesus sawe it, he was sore displeased, and sayde vnto them: Suffer the young children to come vnto me, forbyd them not: For of such, is the kyngdome of God. 15 Ueryly I say vnto you, whosoeuer doth not receaue ye kingdome of God as a young childe, he shall not enter therin. 16 And when he had taken them vp in his armes, he put his handes vpon the, and blessed them.