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 for me, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day; I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so I will go in unto the king, even though this is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.

And I turned my face unto the Lord God, seeking him in prayer and supplication, in fasting and sackcloth, and ashes:

and she was a widow eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

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

Besought

Then ye shall call upon me, and ye shall walk in my ways and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

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

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

And he was intreated

And we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth 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 of such as lay in wait by the way.

But if from there, thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

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

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

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

And the LORD shall smite Egypt; he shall smite and heal it because they shall become converted unto the LORD, and he shall grant them clemency and shall heal them.

Then ye shall call upon me, and ye shall walk in my ways and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you;