Yitzchak entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. The LORD was entreated by him, and Rivka his wife conceived.
Ezra 8:23 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So we fasted and besought our God for this, and He heard our entreaty. American Standard Version (1901) So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us. Common English Bible So we fasted and prayed to our God for this, and he responded to us. Catholic Public Domain Version And so we fasted and begged our God for this; and as a result, we prospered. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us. |
Yitzchak entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. The LORD was entreated by him, and Rivka his wife conceived.
Yeho'achaz begged the LORD, and the LORD listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Yisra'el, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.
They were helped against them, and the Hagrim were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.
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.
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.
*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.*
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.
The LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to the LORD, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
Cornelius said, *Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.