Ezra 8:23

Ezra Proclaims A Fast

²² For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who are turned away from him. ²³ So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer. ²⁴ So I put on one side twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

Fasted and Prayed

For Us

Ezra

Jeremiah 29:12-13

And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.

1 Chronicles 5:20

And they were helped against them, so that the Hagarites, and those with them, were given into their power. For they sent up prayers to God in the fight, and he gave ear to them, because they put their faith in him.

Deuteronomy 4:29

But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

Ezra 8:31

Then we went away from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was on us, and he gave us salvation from our haters and those who were waiting to make an attack on us by the way.

Nehemiah 9:1

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.

Esther 4:16

Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.

Psalm 66:18-20

I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

Isaiah 19:22

And the Lord will send punishment on Egypt, and will make them well again; and when they come back to the Lord he will give ear to their prayer and take away their disease.

Jeremiah 33:3

Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.

Jeremiah 50:4-5

In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.

Daniel 9:3

And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.

Matthew 7:7-8

Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:

Luke 2:37

She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.

Acts 10:30

And Cornelius said, Four days from now I was in my house in prayer at the ninth hour; and I saw before me a man in shining clothing,