Ezra 8:21

Modern King James Version

Then I called a fast there at the river Ahava, so that we might humble ourselves before our God, in order to seek from Him a right way for us and for our little ones, and for all our goods.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:3

And Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek Jehovah, and called for a fast throughout all Judah.

2 Chronicles 20:4

And Judah gathered themselves to ask of Jehovah. Even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek Jehovah.

Ezra 8:15

And I gathered them to the river which runs to Ahava. And we stayed there in tents three days. And I looked over the people and the priests, and did not find there any of the sons of Levi.

Ezra 8:31

And we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. And the hand of our God was on us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and from ambushers by the way.

Nehemiah 9:1

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

Esther 4:16

Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, night or day. My maidservants and I will also fast in the same way. And so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law. And if I perish, I perish.

Psalm 137:1

There we sat down by the rivers of Babylon; also, we wept when we remembered Zion.

Psalm 5:8

Lead me, O Jehovah, 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 inward part is wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 8:2

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings You have ordained strength, because of ones vexing You, to cause the enemy and the avenger to cease.

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

Isaiah 30:21

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

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 He shall be with them; the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err in it.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will bring the blind by a way they knew not; I will lead them in paths they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. I will do these things to them, and not forsake them.

Isaiah 49:10

They shall not hunger nor thirst; nor 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

They say, Why have we fasted, and You do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and You take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and crush all your laborers.

Isaiah 58:5

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and a day pleasing to Jehovah?

Jeremiah 10:23

O Jehovah, I know that the way of man does not belong to man; it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Jeremiah 42:3

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

Daniel 9:3

And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and holy desires, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

Joel 1:14

Set apart a fast; call a solemn gathering; gather the elders and all the people of the land into the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to the Lord,

Leviticus 16:29

And it shall be a statute forever to you: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work at all, the native and the alien who is staying among you.

Leviticus 16:31

It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.

Leviticus 23:29

For any soul who is not humbled in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

Jonah 3:5

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

Jonah 3:7

And he cried out and said in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his great ones, saying, Do not let man or beast, herd or flock taste anything; do not let them feed, nor drink water.

Numbers 14:3

And why has Jehovah brought us into this land to fall by the sword, so that our wives and our sons should be a prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?

Numbers 14:31

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

Acts 2:39

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

Judges 20:26

And all the sons of Israel, and all the people, went up and came into the house of God, and wept, and sat there before Jehovah and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Jehovah.

1 Samuel 7:6

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