Ezra.8.23

Ezra 8:23

KJV

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

Fasting for Protection

Cross References

Genesis 25:21

KJV

And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Jacob and Esau

1 Chronicles 5:20

KJV

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.

The Descendants of Gad

2 Chronicles 33:13

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And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.

Manasseh’s Repentance and Restoration

Nehemiah 9:1

KJV

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.