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Esdra 8:23

Kështu ne agjeruam dhe iu lutëm Perëndisë tonë për këtë arësye, dhe ai e dëgjoi lutjen tonë.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Courage;   Fasting;   Humiliation and Self-Affliction;   Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fasting;   Prayer, Answers to;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fasting;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Humility;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fast;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Fasting;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exile;   Ezra, Book of;   Fasting;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;   Fasting;   Johanan;   Prayer;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ezra;   Prayer;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ahava;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we fasted: Nehemiah 9:1, Esther 4:16, Daniel 9:3, Luke 2:37, Acts 10:30

besought: Jeremiah 29:12, Jeremiah 29:13, Jeremiah 33:3, Jeremiah 50:4, Jeremiah 50:5

and he was entreated: Ezra 8:31, Deuteronomy 4:29, 1 Chronicles 5:20, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:13, Psalms 66:18-20, Isaiah 19:22, Jeremiah 29:12, Jeremiah 29:13, Matthew 7:7, Matthew 7:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 25:21 - and the Proverbs 3:6 - In Acts 8:24 - Pray

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So we fasted, and besought our God for this,.... Sought the Lord by fasting and prayer for a good journey, and preservation in it:

and he was entreated of us; accepted their prayer, as Jarchi, so that they came safe to Jerusalem.


 
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