Genesis 18:24-33
24Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? 25Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, aso that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! bShall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” 26And the Lord said, c“If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”27Abraham answered and said, d“Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. 28Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.” 29Again he spoke to him and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.” 30Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.” 31He said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.” 32Then he said, e“Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.” 33And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Genesis 20:17
17Then fAbraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.1 Samuel 7:8
8And 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.”1 Samuel 12:19
19And all the people said to Samuel, g“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.”1 Samuel 12:23
23Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing hto pray for you, iand I will instruct you in the good and the right way.Jeremiah 7:16
16“As for you, jdo not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.Jeremiah 15:1
The Lord Will Not Relent
1Then the Lord said to me, k“Though lMoses mand Samuel nstood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!Jeremiah 18:20
20 oShould good be repaid with evil?Yet pthey have dug a pit for my life.
qRemember how I stood before you
to speak good for them,
to turn away your wrath from them.
Jeremiah 42:2
2and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let rour plea for mercy come before you, and spray to the Lord your God for us, for all tthis remnant— ubecause we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us—
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