Ezra 8:21
Then 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.
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Gill's Exposition
For I was ashamed to require of the kings band of soldiers and horsemen,.... Which he might have had, only asking for them; so great was the interest he had in the king's favour:
to help us against…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
The Events of the Journey
21 30. Preparations for the journey. (a) 21 23. The rendezvous and solemn fast at Ahava
21. I proclaimed a fast For "fasting" see also on Ezr 9:3; Ezr 10:6. Here however the…
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