Ezra 8:21

Ezra Proclaims A Fast

²⁰ And from the Nethinims David gave, and the chiefs, for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were specified by names. ²¹ And I shall call a fast there, upon the river Ahava, to humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us and for our little ones, and for all our substance. ²² For I was ashamed to ask from the king strength and horsemen to help us from the enemy in the way: for we said to the king, saying, The hand of our God upon all seeking him for good; and his strength and his anger against all forsaking him.

For Us

Little Ones

Proclaimed a Fast

Ahava

Ezra

2 Chronicles 20:3

And Jehoshaphat will fear, and he will give his face to seek to Jehovah, and he will call a fast for all Judah.

Psalm 5:8

O Jehovah, guide me into thy justice, for sake of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

Leviticus 16:29

And it was to you for a law forever: in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month ye shall humble your souls, and all work ye shall not do, the native and the stranger sojourning in the midst of you.

Leviticus 23:29

For every soul which shall not be humbled in, that same day, and it was cut off from its people.

1 Samuel 7:6

And they will gather together to Mizpeh, and draw water and pour out before Jehovah; and they will fast in that day and say there, We sinned against Jehovah. And Samuel will judge the sons of Israel in Mizpeh.

Ezra 8:15

And I shall gather them together to the river going to Ahava, and there we shall encamp three days: and I shall look upon the people and upon the priests, and from the sons of Levi I found not these.

Isaiah 58:3

For what did we fast, and thou sawest not? we humbled our soul and thou wilt not know? Behold, in the day of your fasting ye will find desire, and ye will exact all your labors.

Isaiah 58:5

Will this be the fast I shall choose? a day for a man to humble his soul? to bend his head as a bulrush, and he will place sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast and a day of acceptance to Jehovah.

Leviticus 16:31

And this is a Sabbath of Sabbath to you, and ye humbled your souls, a law forever.

Numbers 14:3

And wherefore does Jehovah bring us to this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our little ones shall be for a prey. Would it not be good for us to turn back to Egypt?

Numbers 14:31

And your little ones which ye said shall be for a prey, and I brought them in, and they shall know the land which ye rejected

Judges 20:26

And all the sons of Israel and all the people will go up, and they will come to the house of God, and they will weep, and they will sit there before Jehovah, and they will fast in that day till the evening, and they will bring up burnt-offerings and peace before Jehovah.

Ezra 8:31

And we removed from the river Ahava in the twelfth to the first month, to go to Jerusalem: and the band of our God was upon us and he will deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and of him lying in wait upon the way.

Psalm 8:2

Out of the mouth of children and sucklings thou hast founded strength on account of thine enemies, to cause the enemy and the avenger to cease.

Psalm 107:2-8

They being redeemed of Jehovah shall say, Which he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Psalm 143:8-10

Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee I trusted: cause me to know the way that I shall go; for to thee I lifted up my soul.

Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways know him, and he will make straight thy paths.

Isaiah 30:21

And thine ears shall hear the word from after thee, saying, This the way, go ye in it when ye shall turn to the right, and when ye shall turn to the left

Isaiah 35:8

And a highway was there, and a way, and it shall be called to it, A way of holiness; the unclean one shall not pass through it; and it is for them; he going the way, and the foolish shall not err.

Isaiah 42:16

I brought the blind by a way they knew not; and I will cause them to tread in beaten paths they knew not: I will set darkness for light before them, and crooked ways into straightness; these words I did them, and I forsook them not

Isaiah 49:10

They shall not hunger and they shall not thirst, and the heat shall not strike them, and the sun: for he pitying them shall lead them, and to fountains of water he shall conduct them.

Jeremiah 10:23

I knew, O Jehovah, that not to man his way; not to man to go and set right his step.

Jeremiah 31:8-9

Behold me bringing them from the land of the north, and I gathered them from the thighs of the earth, with them the blind and the lame, her being Pregnant, and her bringing forth together: a great convocation shall turn back hither.

Jeremiah 50:4-5

In those days and in that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going, and they wept: they shall go and shall seek Jehovah their God.

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast., call an assembly, gather together the old men, all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah.

Joel 2:12-18

And also now, says Jehovah, Turn back even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping and with wailing.

Jonah 3:5

And the men of Nineveh will believe in God, and they will call a fast, and put on sackcloth, from great and even to small.

Mark 10:13-16

And they brought young children to him, that he might touch them: and the disciples rebuked those bringing.

Acts 2:39

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all afar off, as many as the Lord our God should call.