Ezra 8:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

So we fasted and prayed to our God for this, and he answered us.

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  • Jer 29:12-13 : 12 Then you will call upon me, and you will go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
  • 1 Chr 5:20 : 20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them, for they cried to God in the battle, and He was entreated by them because they put their trust in Him.
  • 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 And when he was in distress, he sought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 And he prayed to him, and he was entreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.
  • Ezra 8:31 : 31 Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and from those who ambushed us along the way.
  • Neh 9:1 : 1 On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the children of Israel gathered with fasting and wearing sackcloth, and with earth upon them.
  • Esth 4:16 : 16 "Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish."
  • Ps 66:18-20 : 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: 19 But truly God has heard me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer. 20 Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
  • Isa 19:22 : 22 The LORD shall smite Egypt; He shall smite and heal it, and they shall return to the LORD. He shall be entreated by them and shall heal them.
  • Jer 33:3 : 3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.
  • Jer 50:4-5 : 4 In those days and at that time, says the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go and seek the LORD their God. 5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces toward it, saying, Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
  • Dan 9:3 : 3 And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes:
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it will be opened.
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 And she was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
  • Acts 10:30 : 30 And 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,
  • Deut 4:29 : 29 But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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    21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for us, our little ones, and all our goods.

    22 For I was ashamed to request from the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek him; but his power and his wrath are against all who forsake him.

  • Neh 4:9
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    9 Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

  • Neh 1:4-5
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    4 And it happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

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    13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us: yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

  • Dan 9:3
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    3 And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes:

  • Ezra 9:8-10
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    8 And now for a little while grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

    9 For we were bondservants, yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, to repair its desolations, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

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    4 Then the king said to me, What do you request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

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    31 Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and from those who ambushed us along the way.

    32 And we came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.

  • Dan 9:17-18
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    17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and cause Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

    18 O my God, incline Your ear, and hear; open Your eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name: for we do not present our supplications before You for our righteousness, but for Your great mercies.

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    24 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

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    23 And I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying,

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    2 And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech you, our supplication be accepted before you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few out of many, as your eyes do see us:)

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    12 And when he was in distress, he sought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

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    2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said to them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as you do; and we have sacrificed to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.

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    6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to You, my God, for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass has grown up to the heavens.

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