Ezra 8:21

Ezra Proclaims A Fast

²⁰ And of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes gave to minister unto the Levites, two hundred and twenty, all named by name. ²¹ And even there at the water beside Ahava, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and our children and all our substance. ²² For I was ashamed to require of the king, soldiers and horsemen, to help us against the enemy in the way. For we had said unto the king, "The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness, and his violence and wrath is upon all them that forsake him."

For Us

Little Ones

Proclaimed a Fast

Ahava

Ezra

2 Chronicles 20:3

And Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed fasting throughout all Judah.

Psalm 5:8

Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way plain before my face.

Leviticus 16:29

"And it shall be an ordinance forever unto you. And even in the tenth day of the seventh month, ye shall humble your souls and shall do no work at all: whether it be one of yourselves or a stranger that sojourneth among you,

Leviticus 23:29

For whatsoever soul it be that humbleth not himself that day, he shall be destroyed from among his people.

1 Samuel 7:6

And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted the same day, and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the causes of the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

Ezra 8:15

And I gathered them together by the water that runneth toward Ahava, and there abode we three days. And when I looked among the people and the priests, I found no Levites there.

Isaiah 58:3

They seek of me righteous judgments, and will draw nigh unto God. Why have we fasted and thou hast not looked upon it? Have humbled our souls, and thou wouldest not wit it?

Isaiah 58:5

Should it be such a manner of fast that I should chose? A day that a man should hurt his soul in? Or to bow down his head like a bulrush? Or to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Shouldest thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable unto the LORD?

Leviticus 16:31

It shall be a Sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall humble your souls, and it shall be an ordinance forever.

Numbers 14:3

Wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land to fall upon the sword, that both our wives, and also our children should be a prey? Is it not better that we return unto Egypt again?"

Numbers 14:31

And your children, which ye said should be a prey: them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have refused,

Judges 20:26

Then the children of Israel and all the people went up and came unto Bethel, and wept and sat there before the LORD, and fasted the same day unto evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

Ezra 8:31

So we brake up, from the water of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and delivered us from the hand of the enemies and of such as laid wait for us by the way.

Psalm 8:2

Out of the mouth of the very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

Psalm 107:2-8

Let them give thanks whom the LORD hath redeemed, and delivered from the hand of the enemy,

Psalm 143:8-10

O let me hear thy loving-kindness betimes in the morning; for in thee is my trust. Show thou me the way that I should walk in; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways have respect unto him, and he shall order thy goings.

Isaiah 30:21

and thine ears hearken to his word that cryeth after thee and sayeth, "This is the way. Walk ye in it. Turn not aside; neither to the righthand nor to the left."

Isaiah 35:8

There shall be foot paths and common streets: this shall be called the holy way. No unclean person shall go through it, for the LORD himself shall go with them that way, and the ignorant shall not err.

Isaiah 42:16

I will bring the blind into the street, that they know not: and lead them in to a foot path, that they are ignorant in. I shall make darkness light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight. These things will I do, and not forget them.

Isaiah 49:10

There shall neither hunger nor thirst, heat nor Sun hurt them. For he that favoureth them shall lead them, and give them drink of the spring wells.

Jeremiah 10:23

Now I know, O LORD, that it is not in man's power to order his own ways, or to rule his own steps and goings.

Jeremiah 31:8-9

Behold, I will bring them again from out of the north land, and gather them from the ends of the world, with the blind and lame that are among them, with the women that be great with child, and such as be also delivered: and the company of them that come again, shall be great.

Jeremiah 50:4-5

In those days, and at that time, sayeth the LORD, the children of Israel shall come; they and the children of Judah, weeping and making haste, and shall seek the LORD their God.

Joel 1:14

Proclaim a fasting, call the congregation, gather the elders and all the inhabiters of the land together in to the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.

Joel 2:12-18

And now therefore saith the LORD: Turn to me with all your hearts, in fasting and lamentation.

Jonah 3:5

And the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed fasting, and arrayed themselves in sackcloth, as well the great as the small of them.

Mark 10:13-16

And they brought children to him that he should touch them. And his disciples rebuked those that brought them.

Acts 2:39

"For the promise was made unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar, even as many as the Lord God shall call."