 | William Warburton - Bible - 1837 - 744 pages
...; and therefore had recourse to prayer and fasting : " Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our...and for our little ones, and for all our substance. For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen, to help us against the enemy... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 328 pages
...according unto the manner. 2. Public Fasting. EZRA 8 : 21. Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our...and for our little ones, and for all our substance. For I was ashamed to require of the king a hand of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy... | |
 | Henry John Marks - 1838 - 192 pages
...soul according to the intention of the ordinance quoted above, and also Ezra, yiii. 21. — " Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that...and for our little ones, and for all our substance." See also Isa. Iviii. 3 — 5. I never could believe, after a little acquaintance with Holy Writ, that... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...service of the Lévites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims : all of them were expressed by name. 21 Then that we be no more a reproach. 18 Then I told them...also * this good icork, 19 But when Sanballat th 22 ones, and for all our substance. For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1838 - 330 pages
...just. 7 Let there be no spots in your feasts of charity. s Let us humble our souls with fasting, and afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us. 1 1 Cor. xvi. 2. Rev. i. 10. I Cor. xvi. 2. * Deut. xvi. 11. 3 Deut. xii. 18. 4 Hosea ix. 5. Esther... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1839 - 738 pages
...practice among the eastern people, and is yet continued there. — BUUDER. CHAPTER VIII. Ver. 2 1 . Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that...and for our little ones, and for all our substance. The whole valley was covered with the tents of the pilgrims; for a very few, compared with their numbers,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 506 pages
...enterprise of the Pilgrims began from God. A solemn July- fast was held. " Let us seek of God," said they, " a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance." Anticipating their high destiny, and the sublime doctrines of liberty that would grow out of the principles... | |
 | James Cleland - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1840 - 112 pages
...James Clark, minister of the Tron Church, Glasgow, preached from these words in Ezra viii. 21 : " Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the River of Ahava,...and for our little ones, and for all our substance." After the discourse was finished, the preacher said, " Wherefore, up and be valiant for the city of... | |
 | Jews - Bible - 1840 - 212 pages
...join his party. Ezra made a further preparation for his journey, by observing a solemn fast. < Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava,...and for our little ones, and for all our substance. For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1840 - 566 pages
...them ; and they were smitten before Israel," 1 Sam. vii, 6. So Ezra: "I proclaimed a fast at the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our...a right way for us, and for our little ones ; and he was entreated of us," Ezra viii, 21. So Nehemiah: " I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,... | |
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For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way : because we had spoken unto the king, saying, " The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him ; but his power and his wrath... 
