Ezra 8:21

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

Yehoshafat feared, and set himself to seek to the LORD; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Yehudah.

2 Chronicles 20:4

Yehudah gathered themselves together, to seek [help] of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Yehudah they came to seek the LORD.

Ezra 8:15

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

Ezra 8:31

Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first month, to go to Yerushalayim: 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 Yisra'el 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 137:1

By the rivers of Bavel, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Tziyon.

Psalm 5:8

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

Psalm 5:9

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 8:2

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Isaiah 30:21

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, *This is the way. Walk in it.*

Isaiah 35:8

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.

Isaiah 42:16

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

Isaiah 49:10

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water he will guide them.

Isaiah 58:3

Why have we fasted, [say they], and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.

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 you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

Jeremiah 10:23

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

Jeremiah 42:3

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

Daniel 9:3

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

Joel 1:14

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

Leviticus 16:29

*It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:

Leviticus 16:31

It is a Shabbat of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.

Leviticus 23:29

For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.

Jonah 3:5

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.

Jonah 3:7

He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, *Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

Numbers 14:3

Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?

Numbers 14:31

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

Acts 2:39

For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.*

Judges 20:26

Then all the children of Yisra'el, and all the people, went up, and came to Beit-El, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even; and they offered burnt offerings and shalom offerings before the LORD.

1 Samuel 7:6

They gathered together to Mitzpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, *We have sinned against the LORD.* Shemu'el judged the children of Yisra'el in Mitzpah.