Ezra 8:23
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New International Version (©2011)
So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So we fasted and earnestly prayed that our God would take care of us, and he heard our prayer.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter, and He listened to our entreaty.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So we fasted and pleaded with our God about this, and He granted our request.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So we fasted and asked our God about this, and he listened to us.

NET Bible (©2006)
So we fasted and prayed to our God about this, and he answered us.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So we fasted and asked our God for a safe journey, and he answered our prayer.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he answered our prayer.

American King James Version
So we fasted and sought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

American Standard Version
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us.

Darby Bible Translation
And we fasted, and besought our God for this; and he was entreated of us.

English Revised Version
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

Webster's Bible Translation
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated by us.

World English Bible
So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

Young's Literal Translation
And we fast, and seek from our God for this, and He is entreated of us.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:21-23 Ezra procured Levites to go with him; but what will that avail, unless he have God with him? Those who seek God, are safe under the shadow of his wings, even in their greatest dangers; but those who forsake him, are always exposed. When entering upon any new state of life, our care should be, to bring none of the guilt of the sins of our former condition into it. When we are in any peril, let us be at peace with God, and then nothing can do us any real hurt. All our concerns about ourselves, our families, and our estates, it is our wisdom and duty, by prayer to commit to God, and to leave the care of them with him. And, on some occasions, we should decline advantages which are within our reach, lest we should cause others to stumble, and so our God be dishonoured. Let us ask wisdom of God, that we may know how to use or to refuse lawful things. We shall be no losers by venturing, suffering, or giving up for the Lord's sake. Their prayers were answered, and the event declared it. Never have any that sought God in earnest, found that they sought him in vain. In times of difficulty and danger, to set a season apart for secret or for social prayer, is the best method for relief we can take.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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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Fasting for Protection
21Then 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. 22For 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 to the king, saying, The hand of our God is on all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. 23So we fasted and sought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

Genesis 25:21 Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
1 Chronicles 5:20 They were helped in fighting them, and God delivered the Hagrites and all their allies into their hands, because they cried out to him during the battle. He answered their prayers, because they trusted in him.
2 Chronicles 33:13 And when he prayed to him, the LORD was moved by his entreaty and listened to his plea; so he brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.
Nehemiah 9:1 On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.