Ezra 8:23

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Ezra 8:23

So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.

We fasted

Acts 10:30

Besought

Jeremiah 29:12

Jeremiah 33:3

Jeremiah 50:4

And he was intreated

Bible References

We fasted

Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I also and my maidens will fast in like manner. And so I will go in to the king, which is not acc

And I set my face to LORD God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

and this woman was a widow to eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, serving with fastings and supplications night and day.

And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour, and the ninth hour praying in my house. And behold, a man stood before me in bright apparel.

Besought

And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray to me, and I will hearken to you.

Call to me, and I will answer thee, and will show thee great things, and difficult, which thou know not.

In those days, and in that time, says LORD, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together. They shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek LORD their God.

And he was intreated

Then 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 upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the ambushment by the way.

But from there ye shall seek LORD thy God. And thou shall find him when thou search after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them, for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated by them because they put their trust in him.

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

If I regard iniquity in my heart, LORD will not hear.

And LORD will smite Egypt, smiting and healing, and they shall return to LORD. And he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray to me, and I will hearken to you.

Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and ye will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.