Ezra 8:23
So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He granted our request.
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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.

Esther 4:16
"Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink day or night for three days, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish."

Daniel 9:3
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Luke 2:37
and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

Acts 10:30
Cornelius answered: "Four days ago, I was in my house praying at this, the ninth hour. Suddenly a man in radiant clothing stood before me

besought

Jeremiah 29:12, 13
Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. . . .

Jeremiah 33:3
Call to Me and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

Jeremiah 50:4, 5
"In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God. . . .

and he was intreated

Ezra 8:31
On the twelfth day of the first month, we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.

Deuteronomy 4:29
But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul.

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 33:12, 13
And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers. . . .

Psalm 66:18-20
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. . . .

Isaiah 19:22
And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.

Jeremiah 29:12, 13
Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. . . .

Matthew 7:7, 8
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. . . .

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

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

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

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

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