Ezra 8:21

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

And I shall call a fast there, upon the river Ahava, to humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:3

And Jehoshaphat will fear, and he will give his face to seek to Jehovah, and he will call a fast for all Judah.

2 Chronicles 20:4

And Judah will gather together to seek from Jehovah; also from all the cities of Judah they came to seek Jehovah.

Ezra 8:15

And I shall gather them together to the river going to Ahava, and there we shall encamp three days: and I shall look upon the people and upon the priests, and from the sons of Levi I found not these.

Ezra 8:31

And we removed from the river Ahava in the twelfth to the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the band of our God was upon us and he will deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and of him lying in wait upon the way.

Nehemiah 9:1

And in the twenty and fourth day to this month, the sons of Israel were gathered together with fasting and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

Esther 4:16

Go collect together all the Jews being found in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and ye shall not eat and ye shall not drink three days, night and day also I and my maidens will fast thus and in this I will go in to the king which is not according to the edict; and according to that I perished, I perished.

Psalm 137:1

By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down: also we wept in our remembering Zion.

Psalm 5:8

O Jehovah, guide me into thy justice, for sake of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

Psalm 5:9

Not steadfast in his mouth; the midst of them mischiefs; their throat a grave opened; they will be smooth with their tongue,

Psalm 8:2

Out of the mouth of children and sucklings thou hast founded strength on account of thine enemies, to cause the enemy and the avenger to cease.

Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways know him, and he will make straight thy paths.

Isaiah 30:21

And thine ears shall hear the word from after thee, saying, This the way, go ye in it when ye shall turn to the right, and when ye shall turn to the left

Isaiah 35:8

And a highway was there, and a way, and it shall be called to it, A way of holiness; the unclean one shall not pass through it; and it is for them; he going the way, and the foolish shall not err.

Isaiah 42:16

I brought the blind by a way they knew not; and I will cause them to tread in beaten paths they knew not: I will set darkness for light before them, and crooked ways into straightness; these words I did them, and I forsook them not

Isaiah 49:10

They shall not hunger and they shall not thirst, and the heat shall not strike them, and the sun: for he pitying them shall lead them, and to fountains of water he shall conduct them.

Isaiah 58:3

For what did we fast, and thou sawest not? we humbled our soul and thou wilt not know? Behold, in the day of your fasting ye will find desire, and ye will exact all your labors.

Isaiah 58:5

Will this be the fast I shall choose? a day for a man to humble his soul? to bend his head as a bulrush, and he will place sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast and a day of acceptance to Jehovah.

Jeremiah 10:23

I knew, O Jehovah, that not to man his way; not to man to go and set right his step.

Jeremiah 42:3

And Jehovah thy God will announce to us the way which we shall go in it, and the word which we shall do.

Daniel 9:3

And I will give my face to Jehovah God to seek prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes:

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast., call an assembly, gather together the old men, all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah.

Leviticus 16:29

And it was to you for a law forever: in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month ye shall humble your souls, and all work ye shall not do, the native and the stranger sojourning in the midst of you.

Leviticus 16:31

And this is a Sabbath of Sabbath to you, and ye humbled your souls, a law forever.

Leviticus 23:29

For every soul which shall not be humbled in, that same day, and it was cut off from its people.

Jonah 3:5

And the men of Nineveh will believe in God, and they will call a fast, and put on sackcloth, from great and even to small.

Jonah 3:7

And he will cry out and say in Nineveh from the edict of the king and of his great ones, saying, The man and beast, the herd and flock shall not taste of anything; they shall not feed and they shall not drink water.

Numbers 14:3

And wherefore does Jehovah bring us to this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our little ones shall be for a prey. Would it not be good for us to turn back to Egypt?

Numbers 14:31

And your little ones which ye said shall be for a prey, and I brought them in, and they shall know the land which ye rejected

Acts 2:39

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all afar off, as many as the Lord our God should call.

Judges 20:26

And all the sons of Israel and all the people will go up, and they will come to the house of God, and they will weep, and they will sit there before Jehovah, and they will fast in that day till the evening, and they will bring up burnt-offerings and peace before Jehovah.

1 Samuel 7:6

And they will gather together to Mizpeh, and draw water and pour out before Jehovah; and they will fast in that day and say there, We sinned against Jehovah. And Samuel will judge the sons of Israel in Mizpeh.