Ezra 8:21

Tree of Life Version

Then I proclaimed a fast there at the Ahava River so that we might humble ourselves before our God and seek from Him a straight way for us, our little ones, and all of our possessions.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:3

Jehoshaphat was afraid so he resolved to seek Adonai, and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

2 Chronicles 20:4

Judah assembled to seek help from Adonai; indeed, they came from all the cities of Judah to seek Adonai.

Ezra 8:15

I assembled them at the river that flows toward Ahava. We camped there for three days, and I observed the people and the kohanim, but I did not find any Levites there.

Ezra 8:31

Then we set out 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 enemy and from ambush along the way.

Nehemiah 9:1

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this same month, Bnei-Yisrael gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.

Esther 4:16

“Go! Gather together all the Jews who are in Shushan and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast in the same way. Afterwards, I will go in to the king, even though it is not according to the law. So if I perish, I perish!”

Psalm 137:1

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

Psalm 5:8

But because of your great lovingkindness, I will enter Your House. I will bow toward Your holy Temple, in awe of You.

Psalm 5:9

Lead me, Adonai, in Your righteousness, because of my enemies. Make Your path straight before me.

Psalm 8:2

Adonai our Lord, how excellent is Your Name over all the earth! You set Your splendor above the heavens.

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

Isaiah 30:21

Your ears will hear a word behind you saying: “This is the way, walk in it. When you turn to the right, or when you turn to the left.”

Isaiah 35:8

A highway will be there—a roadway. It will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it. It is for the one who walks the way. Fools will not go astray.

Isaiah 42:16

I will bring the blind by a way they do not know. in paths they have not known, I will guide them. I will turn darkness before them to light and the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 49:10

They will not hunger or thirst, nor scorching wind or sun strike them, for their compassionate One will lead them, and will guide them by springs of water.

Isaiah 58:3

“Why have we fasted. yet You do not see? Why have we afflicted our souls, yet You take no notice?” “Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and exploit all your laborers.

Isaiah 58:5

Is this the fast I have chosen? A day for one to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and spreading out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to Adonai?

Jeremiah 10:23

I know, Adonai, that a man’s way is not his own, nor does man, as he walks, direct his steps.

Jeremiah 42:3

that Adonai your God may tell us the way we should go and what we should do.”

Daniel 9:3

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

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast. Proclaim a solemn assembly. Gather elders and all living in the land to the House of Adonai your God, and cry to Adonai.

Leviticus 16:29

“It is to be a statute to you forever, that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you are to afflict your souls, and do no kind of work—both the native-born and the outsider dwelling among you.

Leviticus 16:31

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

Leviticus 23:29

For anyone who does not deny himself on that day must be cut off from his people.

Jonah 3:5

Then the people of Nineveh believed God and called for a fast and wore sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least of them.

Jonah 3:7

He made a proclamation saying: “In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles, no man or beast, herd or flock, may taste anything. They must not graze nor drink water.

Numbers 14:3

Why is Adonai bringing us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be like plunder! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”

Numbers 14:31

“As for your children—whom you said would be like plunder—I will bring them in and they will experience the land that you spurned.

Acts 2:39

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away—as many as Adonai our God calls to Himself.”

Judges 20:26

Then all Bnei-Yisrael went up, and all the people came to Bethel and wept and sat there before Adonai. They fasted that day until evening and they offered burnt-offerings and fellowship offerings before Adonai.

1 Samuel 7:6

So they gathered together at Mizpah, drew water and poured it out before Adonai. They fasted on that day and said there, “We have sinned against Adonai.” Then Samuel was judging Bnei-Yisrael at Mizpah.