Cross references

Ezra 8:23

So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He granted our request.

Ezra 8:23 BSB

Ezra 8:23 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 29:12–13 (20 votes) and Matthew 7:7–8 (13 votes). 9 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Genesis 25 to 1 Thessalonians 3.

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Which verses does Ezra 8:23 point to?

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  1. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

  2. Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

  3. And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers. And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition. So He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.

  4. Ezra 8:3110 votes

    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 upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.

  5. But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

  6. And because they cried out to God in battle, they were helped against their enemies, and the Hagrites and all their allies were delivered into their hands. Because they put their trust in God, He answered their prayers.

  7. “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”

  8. And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.

  9. Daniel 9:35 votes

    So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

  10. On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.

  11. Luke 2:374 votes
  12. Acts 10:303 votes

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