King James Version with Apocrypha
"So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us."
— Ezra 8:23, King James Version with Apocrypha
“So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.”
“So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us. ”
“So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.”
“So we fasted and prayed to our God about this, and he answered us.”
“And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us.”
“So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.”
Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;