Ezra 8:21-23

Ezra Leads the Return of the Second Group of Exiles to Jerusalem

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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.
22 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 to the king, saying, The hand of our God is on all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
23 So we fasted and sought our God for this: and he was entreated of us. ¶
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