Ezra 8:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ So we fasted and besought our God for this, and He heard our entreaty.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

Common English Bible

²³ So we fasted and prayed to our God for this, and he responded to us.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And so we fasted and begged our God for this; and as a result, we prospered.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us.

Ezra 8:23 Cross References

Genesis 25:21

And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

2 Kings 13:4

And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.

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 was entreated of them; because they put their trust in him.

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 the lier 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 with sackcloth, and earth upon them.

Esther 4:16

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding:

Isaiah 19:22

And the LORD shall smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return unto the LORD, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them.

Jeremiah 33:3

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and will shew thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not.

Daniel 9:3

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

Luke 2:37

and she had been a widow even for fourscore and four years), which departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.

Acts 10:30

And Cornelius said, Four days ago, until this hour, I was keeping the ninth hour of prayer in my house; and behold, a man stood before me in bright apparel,

Deuteronomy 4:29

But if from thence ye shall seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou search after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.