Ezra 8:23

Ezra Proclaims A Fast

²² For I was ashamed to ask the king for troops and horses to protect us from enemies on the way because we said to the king, "the hand of our God is favorable to all who seek him, but his strength and anger are against all who forsake them." ²³ So we fasted and sought our God for this and he responded to our prayer. ²⁴ I set apart twelve of the official priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them.

Fasted and Prayed

For Us

Ezra

Jeremiah 29:12-13

Then [when] you call me, and you come and pray to me, then I will listen to you.

1 Chronicles 5:20

And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who [were] with them were given into their hand, for they cried out to God in the battle, and he responded to their prayer because they trusted in him.

Deuteronomy 4:29

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will 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 distress he entreated Yahweh his God and greatly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors

Ezra 8:31

On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the river of Ahava to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushing on the way.

Nehemiah 9:1

On the twenty-fourth day of this month the {Israelites} gathered in fasting, in sackcloths, and with soil on them.

Esther 4:16

"Go, gather all the Jews that are found in Susa and fast for me; do not eat or drink [for] three days, both night and day. I and my young girls will fast likewise, and then I will go to the king, which [is] not according to the law; if I perish, I perish.

Psalm 66:18-20

If I had considered evil in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Isaiah 19:22

And Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing; and they will return to Yahweh, and he will respond to their prayer, and he will heal them.

Jeremiah 33:3

'Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great [things] and inaccessible [things that] you have not known.'

Jeremiah 50:4-5

In those days and in that time,'" {declares} Yahweh, "the people of Israel will come, they and the people of Judah together. {Weeping as they go}, they will go, and Yahweh their God they will seek.

Daniel 9:3

Then I turned my face to the Lord God to seek [him] [by] prayer and pleas for mercy, in fasting and [in] sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 7:7-8

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you.

Luke 2:37

and herself [as] a widow up to eighty-four years) who did not depart from the temple with fastings and prayers, serving night and day.

Acts 10:30

And Cornelius said, "{Four days ago at this hour}, [the] ninth, I was praying in my house. And behold, a man in shining clothing stood before me