Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

New American Standard Bible

So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter, and He listened to our entreaty.

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.

King James 2000

So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he answered our prayer.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
So we fasted
צוּם 
Tsuwm 
fast, at all
Usage: 21

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

עתר 
`athar 
Usage: 20

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

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 to the king, saying, "The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him." 23 So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us. 24 Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,


Cross References

Jeremiah 29:12-13

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

1 Chronicles 5:20

They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.

Deuteronomy 4:29

But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

When he was in distress, he begged the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

Ezra 8:31

Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

Nehemiah 9:1

Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.

Esther 4:16

"Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish."

Psalm 66:18-20

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened.

Isaiah 19:22

The LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to the LORD, and he will listen to their pleas, and will heal them.

Jeremiah 33:3

'Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and hidden things, which you do not know.'

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; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek the LORD their God.

Daniel 9:3

And I turned to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 7:7-8

"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Luke 2:37

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Acts 10:30

Cornelius said, "Four days ago until this hour, the ninth hour, I was praying in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

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