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 and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and in sackcloth, and earth upon their heads.

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

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 shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.

In those days, and in 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.

And he was intreated

Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto 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 you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your 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 heeded their prayer; because they put their trust in him.

And when he was in affliction, he sought 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 strike Egypt: he shall strike and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be entreated by them, and shall heal them.

Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

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