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- Exodus 9:29.
Moses replied, "When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the LORD. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the LORD's.
- 1 Samuel 2:1.
[Hannah's Prayer] Then Hannah prayed and said: "My heart rejoices in the LORD; in the LORD my horn is lifted high. My mouth boasts over my enemies, for I delight in your deliverance.
- 2 Samuel 7:18.
[David's Prayer] [7:18-29pp -- 1Ch 17:16-27] Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said: "Who am I, O Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?
- 2 Samuel 7:27.
"O LORD Almighty, God of Israel, you have revealed this to your servant, saying, 'I will build a house for you.' So your servant has found courage to offer you this prayer.
- 2 Samuel 21:14.
They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the tomb of Saul's father Kish, at Zela in Benjamin, and did everything the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer in behalf of the land.
- 2 Samuel 24:25.
David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the LORD answered prayer in behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.
- 1 Kings 8:22.
[Solomon's Prayer of Dedication] [8:22-53pp -- 2Ch 6:12-40] Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven
- 1 Kings 8:28.
Yet give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence this day.
- 1 Kings 8:29.
May your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, this place of which you said, 'My Name shall be there,' so that you will hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place.
- 1 Kings 8:38.
and when a prayer or plea is made by any of your people Israel--each one aware of the afflictions of his own heart, and spreading out his hands toward this temple--
- 1 Kings 8:45.
then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.
- 1 Kings 8:49.
then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.
- 1 Kings 9:3.
The LORD said to him: "I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
- 2 Kings 19:14.
[Hezekiah's Prayer] [19:14-19pp -- Isa 37:14-20] Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.
- 2 Kings 19:20.
[Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib's Fall] [19:20-37pp -- Isa 37:21-38 19:35-37pp -- 2Ch 32:20-21] Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.
- 2 Kings 20:5.
"Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people, 'This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the LORD.
- 1 Chronicles 17:16.
[David's Prayer] [17:16-27pp -- 2Sa 7:18-29] Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said: "Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?
- 1 Chronicles 29:10.
[David's Prayer] David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, "Praise be to you, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
- 2 Chronicles 6:12.
[Solomon's Prayer of Dedication] [6:12-40pp -- 1Ki 8:22-53 6:41-42pp -- Ps 132:8-10] Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.
- 2 Chronicles 6:19.
Yet give attention to your servant's prayer and his plea for mercy, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence.
- 2 Chronicles 6:20.
May your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would put your Name there. May you hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place.
- 2 Chronicles 6:29.
and when a prayer or plea is made by any of your people Israel--each one aware of his afflictions and pains, and spreading out his hands toward this temple--
- 2 Chronicles 6:35.
then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause.
- 2 Chronicles 6:39.
then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their pleas, and uphold their cause. And forgive your people, who have sinned against you.
- 2 Chronicles 7:12.
the LORD appeared to him at night and said: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.
- 2 Chronicles 30:27.
The priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard them, for their prayer reached heaven, his holy dwelling place.
- 2 Chronicles 32:20.
King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out in prayer to heaven about this.
- 2 Chronicles 33:18.
The other events of Manasseh's reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the seers spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, are written in the annals of the kings of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 33:19.
His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself--all are written in the records of the seers.
- Ezra 8:23.
So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.
- Ezra 9:1.
[Ezra's Prayer About Intermarriage] After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, "The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites.
- Nehemiah 1:1.
[Nehemiah's Prayer] The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,
- Nehemiah 1:6.
let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father's house, have committed against you.
- Nehemiah 1:11.
O LORD, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man." I was cupbearer to the king.
- Nehemiah 11:17.
Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, the director who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
- Job 16:17.
yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- Job 42:8.
So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."
- Job 42:9.
So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.
- Psalms 4:1.
[For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David.] Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer.
- Psalms 6:9.
The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.
- Psalms 17:1.
[A prayer of David.] Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer-- it does not rise from deceitful lips.
- Psalms 17:6.
I call on you, O God, for you will answer me; give ear to me and hear my prayer.
- Psalms 39:12.
"Hear my prayer, O LORD, listen to my cry for help; be not deaf to my weeping. For I dwell with you as an alien, a stranger, as all my fathers were.
- Psalms 42:8.
By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me-- a prayer to the God of my life.
- Psalms 54:2.
Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.
- Psalms 55:1.
[For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A "maskil" of David.] Listen to my prayer, O God, do not ignore my plea;
- Psalms 61:1.
[For the director of music. With stringed instruments. Of David.] Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer.
- Psalms 65:2.
O you who hear prayer, to you all men will come.
- Psalms 66:19.
but God has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer.
- Psalms 66:20.
Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me!
- Psalms 84:8.
Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty; listen to me, O God of Jacob. "Selah"
- Psalms 86:1.
[A prayer of David.] Hear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
- Psalms 86:6.
Hear my prayer, O LORD; listen to my cry for mercy.
- Psalms 88:2.
May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry.
- Psalms 88:13.
But I cry to you for help, O LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you.
- Psalms 90:1.
[BOOK IV] [Psalms 90+m106] [A prayer of Moses the man of God.] LORD, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
- Psalms 102:1.
[A prayer of an afflicted man. When he is faint and pours out his lament before the Lord.=] Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come to you.
- Psalms 102:17.
He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea.
- Psalms 109:4.
In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
- Psalms 141:2.
May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
- Psalms 141:5.
Let a righteous man strike me--it is a kindness; let him rebuke me--it is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it. Yet my prayer is ever against the deeds of evildoers;
- Psalms 142:1.
[A "maskil" of David. When he was in the cave. A prayer.] I cry aloud to the LORD; I lift up my voice to the LORD for mercy.
- Psalms 143:1.
[A psalm of David.] O LORD, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief.
- Proverbs 15:8.
The LORD detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
- Proverbs 15:29.
The LORD is far from the wicked but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
- Isaiah 1:15.
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood;
- Isaiah 26:16.
LORD, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.
- Isaiah 37:14.
[Hezekiah's Prayer] [37:14-20pp -- 2Ki 19:14-19] Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.
- Isaiah 38:5.
"Go and tell Hezekiah, 'This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.
- Isaiah 56:7.
these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations."
- Isaiah 63:7.
[Praise and Prayer] I will tell of the kindnesses of the LORD, the deeds for which he is to be praised, according to all the LORD has done for us-- yes, the many good things he has done for the house of Israel, according to his compassion and many kindnesses.
- Jeremiah 10:23.
[Jeremiah's Prayer] I know, O LORD, that a man's life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps.
- Lamentations 3:8.
Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
- Lamentations 3:44.
You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
- Daniel 9:1.
[Daniel's Prayer] In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom--
- Daniel 9:3.
So I turned to the LORD God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.
- Daniel 9:21.
while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
- Jonah 2:1.
[Jonah's Prayer] From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God.
- Jonah 2:7.
"When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, LORD, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple.
- Micah 7:14.
[Prayer and Praise] Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.
- Habakkuk 3:1.
[Habakkuk's Prayer] A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On "shigionoth".
- Matthew 6:5.
[Prayer] [6:9-13pp -- Lk 11:2-4] "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.
- Matthew 21:13.
"It is written," he said to them, " 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a 'den of robbers.' "
- Matthew 21:22.
If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."
- Mark 9:29.
He replied, "This kind can come out only by prayer. "
- Mark 11:17.
And as he taught them, he said, "Is it not written: " 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations' ? But you have made it 'a den of robbers.' "
- Mark 11:24.
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
- Luke 1:13.
But the angel said to him: "Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.
- Luke 11:1.
[Jesus' Teaching on Prayer] [11:2-4pp -- Mt 6:9-13 11:9-13pp -- Mt 7:7-11] One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "LORD, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."
- Luke 19:46.
"It is written," he said to them, " 'My house will be a house of prayer'; but you have made it 'a den of robbers.' "
- Luke 22:45.
When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.
- John 17:15.
My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
- John 17:20.
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
- Acts 1:14.
They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
- Acts 2:42.
[The Fellowship of the Believers] They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
- Acts 3:1.
[Peter Heals the Crippled Beggar] One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer--at three in the afternoon.
- Acts 4:23.
[The Believers' Prayer] On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
- Acts 4:24.
When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. "Sovereign LORD," they said, "you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.
- Acts 6:4.
and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word."
- Acts 10:31.
and said, 'Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and remembered your gifts to the poor.
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