So we fasted and sought our God for this: and he was entreated of us. Treasury of Scripture we fasted Nehemiah 9:1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloths... Esther 4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast you for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day... Daniel 9:3 And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: Luke 2:37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple... 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... besought Jeremiah 29:12,13 Then shall you call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you... Jeremiah 33:3 Call to 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, said the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together... and he was intreated Ezra 8:31 Then we departed 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... 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. 1 Chronicles 5:20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them... 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... Psalm 66:18-20 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me... Isaiah 19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be entreated of them... Jeremiah 29:12,13 Then shall you call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you... Matthew 7:7,8 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you...
Context Fasting for Protection
21Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. 22For I was ashamed to require 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 them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. 23So we fasted and sought our God for this: and he was entreated of us. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us.
Darby Bible Translation
And we fasted, and besought our God for this; and he was entreated of us.
King James Bible
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
Young's Literal Translation
And we fast, and seek from our God for this, and He is entreated of us.
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