Exodus 8:8
8Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, a“Plead with the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and bI will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”Exodus 8:28
28So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only you must not go very far away. cPlead for me.”Exodus 9:28
28 dPlead with the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”Exodus 10:17
17Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, only this once, and eplead with the Lord your God only to remove this death from me.”Numbers 21:7
7 fAnd the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. gPray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.1 Samuel 12:19
19And all the people said to Samuel, h“Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.”Jeremiah 2:27
27who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to me,
and not their face.
But iin the time of their trouble they say,
‘Arise and save us!’
Jeremiah 21:1-2
Jerusalem Will Fall to Nebuchadnezzar
1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent to him jPashhur the son of Malchiah and kZephaniah the priest, the son of lMaaseiah, saying, 2 m“Inquire of the Lord for us, nfor Nebuchadnezzar ▼▼Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, an alternate spelling of Nebuchadnezzar (king of Babylon) occurring frequently from Jeremiah 21–52; this latter spelling is used throughout Jeremiah for consistency
king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the Lord will deal with us according to pall his wonderful deeds and will make him withdraw from us.” Jeremiah 42:2-4
2and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let qour plea for mercy come before you, and rpray to the Lord your God for us, for all sthis remnant— tbecause we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us— 3that uthe Lord your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do.” 4Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the Lord your God according to your request, and vwhatever the Lord answers you I will tell you. wI will keep nothing back from you.”Jeremiah 42:20
20that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. xFor you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, y‘Pray for us to the Lord our God, and zwhatever the Lord our God says, declare to us and we will do it.’
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