So we fasted, and besought our God for this,.... Sought the Lord by fasting and prayer for a good journey, and preservation in it:
and he was entreated of us; accepted their prayer, as Jarchi, so that they came safe to Jerusalem.
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Ezra 8:23
23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.