Ezra 8:21

Bible in Basic English 1965

Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:3

Then Jehoshaphat, in his fear, went to the Lord for directions, and gave orders all through Judah for the people to go without food.

2 Chronicles 20:4

And Judah came together to make prayer for help from the Lord; from every town of Judah they came to give worship to the Lord.

Ezra 8:15

And I made them come together by the river flowing to Ahava; and we were there in tents for three days: and after viewing the people and the priests I saw that no sons of Levi were there.

Ezra 8:31

Then we went away 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, and he gave us salvation from our haters and those who were waiting to make an attack on us by the way.

Nehemiah 9:1

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.

Esther 4:16

Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,

Psalm 5:8

Be my guide, O Lord, in the ways of your righteousness, because of those who are against me; make your way straight before my face.

Psalm 5:9

For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

Psalm 8:2

You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

Isaiah 30:21

And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

Isaiah 35:8

And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

Isaiah 49:10

They will not be in need of food or drink, or be troubled by the heat or the sun: for he who has mercy on them will be their guide, taking them by the springs of water.

Isaiah 58:3

They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

Isaiah 58:5

Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?

Jeremiah 10:23

O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.

Jeremiah 42:3

That the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do.

Daniel 9:3

And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.

Joel 1:14

Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.

Leviticus 16:29

And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you:

Leviticus 16:31

It is a special Sabbath for you, and you are to keep yourselves from pleasure; it is an order for ever.

Leviticus 23:29

For any person, whoever he may be, who takes his pleasure on that day will be cut off from his people.

Jonah 3:5

And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.

Jonah 3:7

And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:

Numbers 14:3

Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

Numbers 14:31

And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.

Acts 2:39

For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.

Judges 20:26

Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up to Beth-el, weeping and waiting there before the Lord, going without food all day till evening, and offering burned offerings and peace-offerings before the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:6

So they came together to Mizpah, and got water, draining it out before the Lord, and they took no food that day, and they said, We have done evil against the Lord. And Samuel was judge of the children of Israel in Mizpah.