3And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
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For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. …
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. …
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven, …
Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)We left Daniel, in the close of the foregoing chapter, employed in the king’s business ; but here we have him employed in better business than any king had for him, speaking to God and hearing from him, not for himself only, but for the church, whose mouth he was to God, and for whose use the oracles of God were committed to him , relating to the days of the Messiah. Observe, 1. When it was that D…
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