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Ezra 8:21 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" 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. "
Ezra 8:21
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And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
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
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated
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Ezra 8:1
"These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king."
Ezra 8:2
"Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush."
Ezra 8:3
"Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty."
Ezra 8:4
"Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males."
Ezra 8:5
"Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males."
Ezra 8:6
"Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males."
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