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Ezra 8:23 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

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

Ezra 8:23

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21 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.

22 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.

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

24 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

25 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:

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From This Chapter

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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