Parallel Verses
King James 2000
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he answered our prayer.
New American Standard Bible
So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter, and He
King James Version
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
Holman Bible
So we fasted and pleaded with our God about this, and He granted our request.
International Standard Version
So we fasted and asked our God about this, and he listened to us.
A Conservative Version
So we fasted and besought our God for this, and he was entreated by us.
American Standard Version
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.
Amplified
So we fasted and sought [help from] our God concerning this [matter], and He heard our plea.
Bible in Basic English
So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.
Darby Translation
And we fasted, and besought our God for this; and he was entreated of us.
Julia Smith Translation
And we will fast and seek of our God concerning this; and he will be entreated for us.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So we fasted and sought our God for this and he responded to our prayer.
Modern King James verseion
So we fasted and prayed to our God for good. And He was pleased to hear us.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
So we fasted, and besought our God for this; and he heard us.
NET Bible
So we fasted and prayed to our God about this, and he answered us.
New Heart English Bible
So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.
The Emphasized Bible
So we fasted and sought of our God, concerning this, - and he suffered himself to be entreated by us.
Webster
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated by us.
World English Bible
So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.
Youngs Literal Translation
And we fast, and seek from our God for this, and He is entreated of us.
Themes
Blessing » Temporal blessings, prayer for » -ezra
Fasting » Accompanied by » Prayer
Fasting » Instances of » In babylon, with prayer for divine deliverance and guidance
Humiliation and self-affliction » Encouraged
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » -ezra
Interlinear
Baqash
'elohiym
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezra 8:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ezra Proclaims A Fast
22 For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. 23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he answered our prayer. 24 Then I separated twelve of the leaders of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
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Cross References
Jeremiah 29:12-13
Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
1 Chronicles 5:20
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.
Deuteronomy 4:29
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.
2 Chronicles 33:12-13
And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
Ezra 8:31
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.
Nehemiah 9:1
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.
Esther 4:16
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.
Psalm 66:18-20
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Isaiah 19:22
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.
Jeremiah 33:3
Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.
Jeremiah 50:4-5
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.
Daniel 9:3
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
Matthew 7:7-8
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Luke 2:37
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.
Acts 10:30
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,