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• 1 Kings 13:6 OT

  The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.” The man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as…

• 1 Kings 18:36-38 OT

  At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these…

• James 5:17 NT

  Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.

• James 5:18 NT

  He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

• 2 Kings 4:33-35 OT

  He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh. He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the…

• 2 Kings 13:4 OT

  Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.

• 2 Kings 19:20 OT

  Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.

• 1 Chronicles 4:10 OT

  Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested.

• 2 Chronicles 14:11 OT

  Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh,…

• 2 Chronicles 14:12 OT

  So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

• 2 Chronicles 20:6-17 OT

  and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you. Didn’t you, our God, drive out the…

• 2 Chronicles 33:13 OT

  He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

• 2 Chronicles 33:19 OT

  His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in…

• Ezra 8:21-23 OT

  Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions. For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of…

• Nehemiah 4:9 OT

  But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.

• Nehemiah 4:15 OT

  When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.

• Job 42:10 OT

  Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

• Lamentations 3:55 OT

  I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

• Lamentations 3:56 OT

  You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”

• Daniel 9:20-23 OT

  While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God; yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had…

• Jonah 2:2 OT

  He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

• Jonah 2:10 OT

  Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

• Luke 1:13 NT

  But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

• Luke 18:38 NT

  He cried out, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!”