Ezra 8:21

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:3

Then Jehoshaphat was fearful and set himself to seek the Lord, and he called for a fast throughout all Judah.

2 Chronicles 20:4

And Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.

Ezra 8:15

I gathered them together at the river that runs to Ahava, and we camped in tents three days. As I examined the people and the priests, I discovered that none of the sons of Levi were there.

Ezra 8:31

Then we began the journey from the Ahava River on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was upon us, and He delivered us from the hand of the attacker and the ambusher along the way.

Nehemiah 9:1

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the Israelites were assembled with fasting and sackcloth, and there was dirt on them.

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather all the Jews who can be found in Susa, then fast for me. Stop eating and drinking for three days, night or day. I and my young women will fast likewise. Only then would I dare go to the king since it is not allowed by law, and if I perish, I perish.”

Psalm 137:1

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

Psalm 5:8

Lead me, O  Lord, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make Your way straight before me.

Psalm 5:9

For there is no uprightness in their mouth; destruction is in their midst; their throat is an open tomb; they flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 8:2

Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength because of Your enemies, to 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

Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left.

Isaiah 35:8

A highway shall be there, a roadway, and it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass on it, but it shall be for the wayfaring men, and fools shall not wander on it.

Isaiah 42:16

I will bring the blind by a way that they did not know; I will lead them in paths that they have not known. I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight. These things I will do for them and not forsake them.

Isaiah 49:10

they shall neither hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun strike them; for He who has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water He shall guide them.

Isaiah 58:3

“Why have we fasted and You do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and You take no notice?” Behold, in the day of your fast you find your desire and are exacting on all your laborers.

Isaiah 58:5

Is it such a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord?

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.

Jeremiah 42:3

Pray 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 toward the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly, assemble the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

Leviticus 16:29

This shall be a perpetual statute for you so that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble yourselves, and do no work of any kind, whether it is the native citizen or the stranger who sojourns among you.

Leviticus 16:31

It shall be a sabbath, a solemn rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. It is a perpetual statute.

Leviticus 23:29

For whoever is not humbled on that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

Jonah 3:5

So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast. And everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth.

Jonah 3:7

Then he made a proclamation in Nineveh: “By decree of the king and his nobles: No man or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not eat or drink water.

Numbers 14:3

And why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should become prey? Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?”

Numbers 14:31

But your children, whom you said would be a prey, I will bring them in and they will know the land, which you rejected.

Acts 2:39

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

Judges 20:26

Then all the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel where they wept and sat before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:6

They gathered together to Mizpah. And they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. And they fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel judged the Israelites in Mizpah.