1Sa 7:8-9, 2Sa 7:18-29, 2Ki 19:15-19, 2Ch 14:11, 20:6-12 | ESV | STEP | And the people of Israel said to Samuel , Do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines .

8 And the people of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.” 9 So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. And ^aSamuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him.

2 Samuel 7:18-29

David’s Prayer of Gratitude

18 Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, ^b“Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? 19 And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. ^cYou have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God! 20 And what more can David say to you? ^dFor you know your servant, O Lord God! 21 Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it. 22 ^eTherefore you are great, O Lord God. ^fFor there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 23 ^gAnd who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name ^hand doing for them ^{▼▼With a few Targums, Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew you} great and awesome things by driving out ^{▼▼Septuagint (compare 1 Chronicles 17:21); Hebrew for your land} before your people, whom ^kyou redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods? 24 ^lAnd you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O Lord, became their God. 25 And now, O Lord God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken. 26 And your name will be magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of hosts is God over Israel,’ and the house of your servant David will be established before you. 27 For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you. 28 And now, O Lord God, you are God, and ^myour words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. 29 Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord God, have spoken, ⁿand with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.”

2 Kings 19:15-19

15 And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said: “O Lord, the God of Israel, ^oenthroned above the cherubim, ^pyou are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. 16 ^qIncline your ear, O Lord, and hear; ^ropen your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent ^sto mock the living God. 17 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands 18 and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, ^tbut the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. 19 So now, O Lord our God, save us, please, from his hand, ^uthat all the kingdoms of the earth may know that ^vyou, O Lord, are God alone.”

2 Chronicles 14:11

11 And Asa ^wcried to the Lord his God, “O Lord, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, ^xfor we rely on you, ^yand in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.”

2 Chronicles 20:6-12

6 and said, “O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not ^zGod in heaven? You ^aarule over all the kingdoms of the nations. ^abIn your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you. 7 Did you not, our God, ^acdrive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of ^adAbraham your friend? 8 And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying, 9 ^ae‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, ^{▼▼Or the sword of judgment} or pestilence, or famine, ^agwe will stand before this house and before you— ^ahfor your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’ 10 And now behold, the men of ^aiAmmon and Moab and ^ajMount Seir, whom ^akyou would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, ^aland whom they avoided and did not destroy— 11 behold, they reward us ^amby coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. 12 O our God, will you not ^anexecute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but ^aoour eyes are on you.”