Bible Cross References
cried
Numbers 21:7
The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Now pray to the LORD to take these snakes away." So Moses prayed for the people.
Psalm 78:34
Whenever he killed some of them, the rest would turn to him; they would repent and pray earnestly to him.
Psalm 78:35
They remembered that God was their protector, that the Almighty came to their aid.
Jeremiah 37:3
King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to ask me to pray to the LORD our God on behalf of our nation.
Jeremiah 42:2
and said to me, "Please do what we ask you! Pray to the LORD our God for us. Pray for all of us who have survived. Once there were many of us; but now only a few of us are left, as you can see.
Acts 8:24
Simon said to Peter and John, "Please pray to the Lord for me, so that none of these things you spoke of will happen to me."
prayed
Numbers 14:13-20
13
But Moses said to the LORD, "You brought these people out of Egypt by your power. When the Egyptians hear what you have done to your people,
14
they will tell it to the people who live in this land. These people have already heard that you, LORD, are with us, that you appear in plain sight when your cloud stops over us, and that you go before us in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
15
Now if you kill all your people, the nations who have heard of your fame will say
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that you killed your people in the wilderness because you were not able to bring them into the land you promised to give them.
17
So now, LORD, I pray, show us your power and do what you promised when you said,
18
'I, the LORD, am not easily angered, and I show great love and faithfulness and forgive sin and rebellion. Yet I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents.'
19
And now, LORD, according to the greatness of your unchanging love, forgive, I pray, the sin of these people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt."
20
The LORD answered, "I will forgive them, as you have asked.
Genesis 18:23-33
23
Abraham approached the LORD and asked, "Are you really going to destroy the innocent with the guilty?
24
If there are fifty innocent people in the city, will you destroy the whole city? Won't you spare it in order to save the fifty?
25
Surely you won't kill the innocent with the guilty. That's impossible! You can't do that. If you did, the innocent would be punished along with the guilty. That is impossible. The judge of all the earth has to act justly."
26
The LORD answered, "If I find fifty innocent people in Sodom, I will spare the whole city for their sake."
27
Abraham spoke again: "Please forgive my boldness in continuing to speak to you, Lord. I am only a man and have no right to say anything.
28
But perhaps there will be only forty-five innocent people instead of fifty. Will you destroy the whole city because there are five too few?" The LORD answered, "I will not destroy the city if I find forty-five innocent people."
29
Abraham spoke again: "Perhaps there will be only forty." He replied, "I will not destroy it if there are forty."
30
Abraham said, "Please don't be angry, Lord, but I must speak again. What if there are only thirty?" He said, "I will not do it if I find thirty."
31
Abraham said, "Please forgive my boldness in continuing to speak to you, Lord. Suppose that only twenty are found?" He said, "I will not destroy the city if I find twenty."
32
Abraham said, "Please don't be angry, Lord, and I will speak only once more. What if only ten are found?" He said, "I will not destroy it if there are ten."
33
After he had finished speaking with Abraham, the LORD went away, and Abraham returned home.
Exodus 32:10-14
10
Now, don't try to stop me. I am angry with them, and I am going to destroy them. Then I will make you and your descendants into a great nation."
11
But Moses pleaded with the LORD his God and said, " LORD, why should you be so angry with your people, whom you rescued from Egypt with great might and power?
12
Why should the Egyptians be able to say that you led your people out of Egypt, planning to kill them in the mountains and destroy them completely? Stop being angry; change your mind and do not bring this disaster on your people.
13
Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Remember the solemn promise you made to them to give them as many descendants as there are stars in the sky and to give their descendants all that land you promised would be their possession forever."
14
So the LORD changed his mind and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
Exodus 32:31-14
Exodus 32:32-14
Exodus 34:9
He said, "Lord, if you really are pleased with me, I ask you to go with us. These people are stubborn, but forgive our evil and our sin, and accept us as your own people."
Deuteronomy 9:19
I was afraid of the LORD's fierce anger, because he was furious enough to destroy you; but once again the LORD listened to me.
Deuteronomy 9:20
The LORD was also angry enough with Aaron to kill him, so I prayed for Aaron at the same time.
Psalm 106:23
When God said that he would destroy his people, his chosen servant, Moses, stood up against God and kept his anger from destroying them.
Isaiah 37:4
The Assyrian emperor has sent his chief official to insult the living God. May the LORD your God hear these insults and punish those who spoke them. So pray to God for those of our people who survive."
Jeremiah 15:1
Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel were standing here pleading with me, I would not show these people any mercy. Make them go away; make them get out of my sight.
Amos 7:2-6
2
In my vision I saw the locusts eat up every green thing in the land, and then I said, "Sovereign LORD, forgive your people! How can they survive? They are so small and weak!"
3
The LORD changed his mind and said, "What you saw will not take place."
4
I had another vision from the Sovereign LORD. In it I saw him preparing to punish his people with fire. The fire burned up the great ocean under the earth and started to burn up the land.
5
Then I said, "Stop, O Sovereign LORD! How can your people survive? They are so small and weak!"
6
The LORD changed his mind again and said, "This will not take place either."
James 5:16
So then, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you will be healed. The prayer of a good person has a powerful effect.
1 John 5:16
If you see a believer commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray to God, who will give that person life. This applies to those whose sins do not lead to death. But there is sin which leads to death, and I do not say that you should pray to God about that.
the fire
Numbers 16:45-48
45
"Move back from these people, and I will destroy them on the spot!" The two of them bowed down with their faces to the ground,
46
and Moses said to Aaron, "Take your fire pan, put live coals from the altar in it, and put some incense on the coals. Then hurry with it to the people and perform the ritual of purification for them. Hurry! The LORD's anger has already broken out and an epidemic has already begun."
47
Aaron obeyed, took his fire pan and ran into the middle of the assembled people. When he saw that the plague had already begun, he put the incense on the coals and performed the ritual of purification for the people.
48
This stopped the plague, and he was left standing between the living and the dead.
Hebrews 7:26
Jesus, then, is the High Priest that meets our needs. He is holy; he has no fault or sin in him; he has been set apart from sinners and raised above the heavens.
1 John 2:1
I am writing this to you, my children, so that you will not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have someone who pleads with the Father on our behalf---Jesus Christ, the righteous one.
1 John 2:2
And Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of everyone.