Ezra 8:23
New International Version
So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.

New Living Translation
So we fasted and earnestly prayed that our God would take care of us, and he heard our prayer.

English Standard Version
So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.

Berean Standard Bible
So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He granted our request.

King James Bible
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.

New King James Version
So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer.

New American Standard Bible
So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter, and He listened to our pleading.

NASB 1995
So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter, and He listened to our entreaty.

NASB 1977
So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter, and He listened to our entreaty.

Legacy Standard Bible
So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter, and He was moved by our entreaty.

Amplified Bible
So we fasted and sought [help from] our God concerning this [matter], and He heard our plea.

Christian Standard Bible
So we fasted and pleaded with our God about this, and he was receptive to our prayer.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So we fasted and pleaded with our God about this, and He granted our request.

American Standard Version
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And we fasted and we inquired of God for this and he listened to us.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So we fasted, and asked of our God concerning this; and he hearkened to us.

Contemporary English Version
So we went without food and asked God himself to protect us, and he answered our prayers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us.

English Revised Version
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So we fasted and asked our God for a safe journey, and he answered our prayer.

Good News Translation
So we fasted and prayed for God to protect us, and he answered our prayers.

International Standard Version
So we fasted and asked our God about this, and he listened to us.

JPS Tanakh 1917
So we fasted and besought our God for this; and He was entreated of us.

Literal Standard Version
And we fast, and seek from our God for this, and He accepts our plea.

Majority Standard Bible
So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He granted our request.

New American Bible
So we fasted, seeking this from our God, and it was granted.

NET Bible
So we fasted and prayed to our God about this, and he answered us.

New Revised Standard Version
So we fasted and petitioned our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.

New Heart English Bible
So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

Webster's Bible Translation
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated by us.

World English Bible
So we fasted and begged our God for this, and he granted our request.

Young's Literal Translation
And we fast, and seek from our God for this, and He is entreated of us.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Fasting for Protection
22For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.” 23So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He granted our request.

Cross References
Genesis 25:21
Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

1 Chronicles 5:20
And because they cried out to God in battle, they were helped against their enemies, and the Hagrites and all their allies were delivered into their hands. Because they put their trust in God, He answered their prayers.

2 Chronicles 33:13
And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.

Nehemiah 9:1
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.


Treasury of Scripture

So we fasted and sought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

we fasted

Nehemiah 9:1
Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

Esther 4:16
Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

Daniel 9:3
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

besought

Jeremiah 29:12,13
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you…

Jeremiah 33:3
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Jeremiah 50:4,5
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God…

and he was intreated

Ezra 8:31
Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

Deuteronomy 4:29
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

1 Chronicles 5:20
And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.

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Ezra 8
1. The companions of Ezra, who returned from Babylon
15. He sends to Iddo for ministers for the temple
21. He keeps a fast
24. He commits the treasures to the custody of the priests
31. From Ahava they come to Jerusalem
33. The treasure is weighed in the temple
36. The commission is delivered
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So we fasted
וַנָּצ֛וּמָה (wan·nā·ṣū·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common plural | third person feminine singular
Strong's 6684: To abstain from food, fast

and petitioned
וַנְּבַקְשָׁ֥ה (wan·nə·ḇaq·šāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - first person common plural | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after

our God
מֵאֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ (mê·’ĕ·lō·hê·nū)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

about
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

this,
זֹ֑את (zōṯ)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

and He granted our request.
וַיֵּעָתֵ֖ר (way·yê·‘ā·ṯêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6279: To burn incense in worship, intercede


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