Ezra 8:21

And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.

Cross References (29)

  • 2 Chronicles 20:3 (18)

    Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.

  • Joel 1:14 (14)

    Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the L

  • 1 Samuel 7:6 (12)

    When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there

  • Isaiah 30:21 (12)

    And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in

  • Jonah 3:5 (9)

    And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

  • Leviticus 16:29 (8)

    This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do

  • Leviticus 23:29 (7)

    If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.

  • Psalms 107:2–8 (7)

    Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy

  • Psalms 143:8–10 (7)

    Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to

  • Proverbs 3:6 (6)

    in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

  • Psalms 5:8 (6)

    Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.

  • Joel 2:12–18 (6)

    “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

  • Isaiah 42:16 (6)

    I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light

  • Mark 10:13–16 (5)

    Now people were bringing the little children to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them, and the disciples rebuked thos

  • Ezra 8:15 (5)

    Now I assembled these exiles at the canal that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And when I searched among

  • Jeremiah 10:23 (5)

    I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

  • Isaiah 58:3 (5)

    “Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the da

  • Isaiah 49:10 (5)

    They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will

  • Acts 2:39 (5)

    This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himse

  • Jeremiah 31:8–9 (5)

    Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the

  • Isaiah 58:5 (4)

    Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackclot

  • Jeremiah 50:4–5 (4)

    “In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together,

  • Leviticus 16:31 (4)

    It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, that you may humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute.

  • Judges 20:26 (4)

    Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted unt

  • Psalms 8:2 (3)

    From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy an

  • Ezra 8:31 (3)

    On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was up

  • Numbers 14:3 (3)

    Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it no

  • Numbers 14:31 (3)

    But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy

  • Isaiah 35:8 (2)

    And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—an