23So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. …
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: …
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, …
Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-23)Ezra has procured Levites to go along with him; but what will that avail, unless he have God with him? That is therefore his chief care. In all our ways we must acknowledge God, and in those particularly wherein we are endeavouring to serve the interest of his kingdom among men. Ezra does so here. Observe, I. The stedfast confidence he had in God and in his gracious protection. He told the king (E…
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