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Ezra 8:21

Kemudian di sana, di tepi sungai Ahawa itu, aku memaklumkan puasa supaya kami merendahkan diri di hadapan Allah kami dan memohon kepada-Nya jalan yang aman bagi kami, bagi anak-anak kami dan segala harta benda kami.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahava;   Blessing;   Children;   Ezra;   Fasting;   Humiliation and Self-Affliction;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Ezra;   Fasts Proclaimed;   Home;   Penitence-Impenitence;   Reception-Rejection;   Repentance;   Seekers;   Seeking God;   Teachableness;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fasting;   Prayer, Answers to;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahava;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ezra;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fast, Fasting;   Humility;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ahava;   Fast;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahava;   Ezra;   Fasting;   Meshullam;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ahava;   Exile;   Ezra, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahava;   Ezra;   Fasting;   Johanan;   Prayer;   River;   Theras;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahava ;   Ivah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ahava;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Aha'va;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ezra;   Fast;   Right;   Substance;   Theras;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ahava;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kemudian di sana, di tepi sungai Ahawa itu, aku memaklumkan puasa supaya kami merendahkan diri di hadapan Allah kami dan memohon kepada-Nya jalan yang aman bagi kami, bagi anak-anak kami dan segala harta benda kami.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka kuserantakan di sana, di tepi sungai Ahawa, suatu puasa, akan merendahkan kami di hadapan hadirat Allah kami, hendak memohonkan kepada-Nya jalan dengan selamat akan kami dan akan segala anak-anak kami dan akan segala harta benda kami.

Contextual Overview

21 And euen there at the water beside Ahaua I proclaymed a fast, that we might humble our selues before our God, and seke of hym a right way for vs, and for our children, and for all our substaunce. 22 For I was ashamed to require of the king souldiers and horsemen, to helpe vs against the enemie in the way: for we had spoken vnto the king, saying: The hande of our God is vpon all them that seke him in goodnesse, & his power and wrath is against all them that forsake hym. 23 So we fasted, and besought our God for this, and he was entreated of vs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I proclaimed: Judges 20:26, 1 Samuel 7:6, 2 Chronicles 20:3, Joel 1:14, Joel 2:12-18, Jonah 3:5

afflict ourselves: Leviticus 16:29, Leviticus 16:31, Leviticus 23:29, Isaiah 58:3, Isaiah 58:5, Jeremiah 31:8, Jeremiah 31:9, Jeremiah 50:4, Jeremiah 50:5

to seek: Psalms 5:8, Psalms 107:2-8, Psalms 143:8-10, Proverbs 3:6, Isaiah 30:21, Isaiah 35:8, Isaiah 42:16, Isaiah 49:10, Jeremiah 10:23

for our little ones: Numbers 14:3, Numbers 14:31, Psalms 8:2, Mark 10:13-16, Acts 2:39

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:42 - prosper Genesis 24:48 - led me Genesis 43:8 - also our Leviticus 23:27 - afflict Numbers 29:7 - afflict Numbers 30:13 - to afflict Joshua 9:14 - asked not Ezra 3:3 - for fear Ezra 8:15 - Ahava Ezra 8:31 - the river of Ahava Psalms 107:7 - he led Psalms 121:8 - thy going out Psalms 137:1 - the rivers Jeremiah 42:3 - General Daniel 9:3 - with Jonah 3:7 - caused 1 Thessalonians 3:11 - our way

Cross-References

Genesis 3:17
Unto Adam he sayde: Because thou hast hearkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tree concernyng the whiche I commaunded thee, saying, thou shalt not eate of it, cursed is the grounde for thy sake, in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy lyfe.
Genesis 4:12
If thou tyll the grounde, she shall not yeelde vnto thee her strength. A fugitiue and a vacabound shalt thou be in the earth.
Genesis 5:29
And called his name Noah, saying: This same shall comfort vs as concerning our worke, & sorowe of our handes about the earth, which God cursed.
Genesis 6:5
But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart [was] only euyll euery day.
Genesis 6:17
And beholde, I, euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen, and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe.
Genesis 8:1
And God remebred Noah and euery beast, and all the cattell that was with hym in the arke: and God made a wynde to passe vpon the earth, and the waters ceassed.
Genesis 8:2
The fountaynes also of the deepe, and the windowes of heauen were stopped, and the rayne from heauen was restrayned.
Genesis 8:3
And the waters from the earth returned, goyng and comming agayne: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftith day, the waters were abated.
Genesis 8:6
And after the ende of the fourtith day, it came to passe [that] Noah opened the wyndowe of the arke which he had made,
Genesis 8:7
And he sent foorth a Rauen, whiche went out, goyng foorth, and returnyng, vntyll the waters were dryed vp vpon the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava,.... After the messengers to Iddo were returned with those they brought with them:

that we might afflict ourselves before our God; humble themselves before him for their sins, confess them, and declare their repentance of them, and ask forgiveness for them:

to seek of him a right way for us; to take from thence towards Jerusalem, to be directed by him in it: either by a prophet, or by a vision in a dream, as Eben Ezra; or rather by the guidance of his providence; this they sought in prayer by the river side, where it had been usual with them, and since has been, to perform religious exercises, see Ezekiel 1:1, hence Tertullian z calls the prayers of the Jews "orationes littorales"; they sought not so much which was the shortest and easiest way for them to travel in, as which was the safest:

and for our little ones and for all our substance; for the safe conveyance of them; this shows, that though males only are numbered, as before, yet they had their wives and children with them; for little ones cannot be supposed without women to take care of them.

z Ad nationes, l. 1. c. 13. Vid. lib. de jejuniis, c. 16.


 
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