Ezra 8:23
So we fasted and besought our Elohim for this: and he was intreated of us.
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Context
21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our Elohim, 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 unto the king, saying, The hand of our Elohim upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath against all them that forsake him.
23 So we fasted and besought our Elohim for this: and he was intreated of us.
24 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
25 And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, the offering of the house of our Elohim, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel present, had offered: