Verses with the word earnestly in the Apocrypha (4 verses):
Judith 4:12
And cried to the God of Israel all with one consent earnestly, that he would not give their children for a prey, and their wives for a spoil, and the cities of their inheritance to destruction, and the sanctuary to profanation and reproach, and for the nations to rejoice at.
Sirach 51:18
For I purposed to do after her, and earnestly I followed that which is good; so shall I not be confounded.
Additions to Esther 13:18
All Israel in like manner cried most earnestly unto the Lord, because their death was before their eyes.
2 Maccabees 4:16
By reason whereof sore calamity came upon them: for they had them to be their enemies and avengers, whose custom they followed so earnestly, and unto whom they desired to be like in all things.
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