Ezra 8:21

A Conservative Version

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:3

And Jehoshaphat was afraid, and set himself to seek for LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Joel 1:14

Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the land to the house of LORD your God, and cry to LORD.

Isaiah 30:21

And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

1 Samuel 7:6

And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against LORD. And Samuel judged the sons of Israel in Mizpah.

Jonah 3:5

And the people of Nineveh believed God, and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Leviticus 16:29

And it shall be a statute forever to you. In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the home-born, or the stranger who sojourns among you.

Leviticus 23:29

For whatever soul it be who shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from his people.

Acts 2:39

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those in afar, as many as Lord our God may call.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not. I will lead them in paths that they know not. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Psalm 5:8

Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of my enemies. Make thy way straight before my face.

Ezra 8:15

And I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we encamped three days. And I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

Jeremiah 10:23

O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Isaiah 58:5

Is such the fast that I have chosen, the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to LORD?

Isaiah 58:3

Why have we fasted, [they say], and thou see not? We have afflicted our soul, and thou take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact from all your laborers.

Isaiah 49:10

They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them. For he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them even by springs of water.

Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.

Judges 20:26

Then all the sons of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before LORD, and fasted that day until evening, and they offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before LORD.

Leviticus 16:31

It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and ye shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.

Isaiah 35:8

And a highway shall be there, and a way. And it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but is shall be for [the redeemed], the wayfaring men. Yea fools shall not err [in it].

Psalm 8:2

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou have perfected praise (LXX/NT), because of thine adversaries, that thou might still the enemy and the avenger.

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 upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the ambushment by the way.

Numbers 14:31

But your little ones, that ye said would be a prey, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

Numbers 14:3

And why does LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey. Were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

Jonah 3:7

And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed, nor drink water,

2 Chronicles 20:4

And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek [help] from LORD, even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek LORD.

Nehemiah 9:1

Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons 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 I will go in to the king, which is not acc

Psalm 5:9

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongue they deceive (LXX/NT).

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

Jeremiah 42:3

that LORD thy God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.

Daniel 9:3

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