Ezra 9:5
And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God,
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Ezra 9:5
And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God,
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Exodus 3:6
And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.
Exodus 4:11
And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? who takes away a man's voice or hearing, or makes him seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
Exodus 4:12
So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what to say.
Exodus 4:13
And he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of anyone whom it seems good to you to send.
Job 9:16
If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.
Song of Solomon 2:14
O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.
Luke 8:47
And when the woman saw that she was not able to keep it secret, she came, shaking with fear, and falling down before him she made clear before all the people the reason for her touching him, and how she was made well straight away.
Luke 8:48
And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.
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Exodus 17:11
Now while Moses' hand was lifted up, Israel was the stronger: but when he let his hand go down, Amalek became the stronger.
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Exodus 17:12
But Moses' hands became tired; so they put a stone under him and he took his seat on it, Aaron and Hur supporting his hands, one on one side and one on the other; so his hands were kept up without falling till the sun went down.
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Exodus 29:39
One lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other in the evening:
Exodus 29:40
And with the one lamb, a tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with a fourth part of a hin of clear oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
Numbers 28:4
Let one be offered in the morning, and the other at evening;
Ezekiel 46:13
And you are to give a lamb a year old without any mark on it for a burned offering to the Lord every day: morning by morning you are to give it.
Ezekiel 46:14
And you are to give, morning by morning, a meal offering with it, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil dropped on the best meal; a meal offering offered to the Lord at all times by an eternal order.
Ezekiel 46:15
And they are to give the lamb and the meal offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a burned offering at all times.
Daniel 8:13
Then there came to my ears the voice of a holy one talking; and another holy one said to that certain one who was talking, How long will the vision be while the regular burned offering is taken away, and the unclean thing causing fear is put up, and the holy place crushed under foot?
Daniel 12:11
And from the time when the regular burned offering is taken away, and an unclean thing causing fear is put up, there will be a thousand, two hundred and ninety days.
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Numbers 10:6
At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go forward.
Numbers 21:10
Then the children of Israel went on and put up their tents in Oboth.
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Numbers 14:5
Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.
Numbers 16:4
And Moses, hearing this, went down on his face;
Numbers 16:21
Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.
Numbers 16:45
Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.
Numbers 20:6
Then Moses and Aaron went away from the people to the door of the Tent of meeting; and, falling on their faces there, they saw the glory of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 9:18
And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.
1 Chronicles 21:16
And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces.
Ezekiel 9:8
Now while they were doing so, and I was untouched, I went down on my face, and crying out, I said, Ah, Lord! will you give all the rest of Israel to destruction in letting loose your wrath on Jerusalem?
Revelation 7:11
And all the angels were round about the high seat, and about the rulers and the four beasts; and they went down on their faces before the high seat, and gave worship to God, saying,
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2 Samuel 13:31
Then the king got up in great grief, stretching himself out on the earth: and all his servants were by his side, with their clothing parted.
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1 Kings 8:28
Still, let your heart be turned to the prayer of your servant, O Lord God, and to his prayer for grace; give ear to the cry and the prayer which your servant sends up to you this day;
1 Kings 8:29
That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.
1 Kings 8:30
Give ear to the prayers of your servant, and the prayers of your people Israel, when they make their prayers, turning to this place; give ear in heaven your living-place, and hearing, have mercy.
2 Kings 19:14
And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord.
Psalms 74:10
O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?
Psalms 74:11
Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?
Psalms 91:1
Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;
Psalms 91:2
Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.
Psalms 123:1
A Song of the going up. To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.
Psalms 123:2
See! as the eyes of servants are turned to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a servant-girl to her owner, so our eyes are waiting for the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us.
Psalms 123:3
Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.
Psalms 123:4
For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.
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2 Kings 19:2
And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
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Ezra 8:4
Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai, the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
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Leviticus 16:29
And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you:
Ezra 9:2
For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.
Ezra 10:4
Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.
Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,
Daniel 4:19
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was at a loss for a time, his thoughts troubling him. The king made answer and said, Belteshazzar, do not be troubled by the dream or by the sense of it. Belteshazzar, answering, said, My lord, may the dream be about your haters, and its sense about those who are against you.
Matthew 9:15
And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.
Luke 13:5
I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.
Romans 9:2
That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.
2 Corinthians 7:9
Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.
2 Corinthians 7:11
For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.
James 4:9
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
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Job 1:21
With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
Jeremiah 14:20
We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.
Lamentations 2:17
The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.
Lamentations 2:19
Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.
Matthew 26:75
And the word of Jesus came back to Peter, when he said, Before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And he went out, weeping bitterly.
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Job 30:16
But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:
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Leviticus 26:40
And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;
Judges 10:10
Then the children of Israel, crying out to the Lord, said, Great is our sin against you, for we have given up our God and have been servants to the Baals.
1 Kings 8:47
And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;
Ezra 9:7
From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.
Ezra 9:8
And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.
Ezra 9:9
For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
Ezra 9:10
And now, O our God, what are we to say after this? for we have not kept your laws,
Job 33:27
He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.
Job 40:4
Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.
Job 42:6
For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
Daniel 9:7
O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.
1 John 1:9
If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.
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Psalms 38:3
My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
Psalms 38:4
For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.
Psalms 38:5
My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.
Psalms 38:6
I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.
Psalms 38:7
For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.
Psalms 38:8
I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
Psalms 73:21
My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:
Psalms 106:6
We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.
Jeremiah 3:13
Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:14
Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;
Jeremiah 31:19
Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.
Luke 15:18
I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:
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Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
Job 27:9
Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?
Job 27:20
Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.
Psalms 66:18
I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:
Proverbs 1:28
Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
Isaiah 59:2
But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.
Jeremiah 14:12
When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.
Ezekiel 8:17
Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose.
Ezekiel 8:18
For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.
Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.
Zechariah 7:13
And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:
Luke 13:25
When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.
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Job 3:13
For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
Isaiah 3:26
And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.
Jeremiah 15:17
I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.
Lamentations 2:10
The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.
Lamentations 3:28
Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.
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Ezekiel 4:3
And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your face be turned to it, and it will be shut in and you will make an attack on it. This will be a sign to the children of Israel.
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Ezekiel 4:5
For I have had the years of their sin measured for you by a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: and you will take on yourself the sin of the children of Israel.
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Numbers 25:6
Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.
Ezra 10:2
And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question.
Ezra 10:3
Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law.
Ezra 10:5
Then Ezra got up, and made the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do this. So they took an oath.
Ezra 10:6
Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.
Nehemiah 1:4
Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,
Psalms 119:136
Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.
Jeremiah 9:1
If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.
Ezekiel 9:6
Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.
Daniel 9:20
And while I was still saying these words in prayer, and putting my sins and the sins of my people Israel before the Lord, and requesting grace from the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;
1 Corinthians 5:2
And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.
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Judges 20:26
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up to Beth-el, weeping and waiting there before the Lord, going without food all day till evening, and offering burned offerings and peace-offerings before the Lord.
2 Chronicles 20:3
Then Jehoshaphat, in his fear, went to the Lord for directions, and gave orders all through Judah for the people to go without food.
Ezra 8:21
Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.
Nehemiah 9:1
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.
Nehemiah 9:2
And the seed of Israel made themselves separate from all the men of other nations, publicly requesting forgiveness for their sins and the wrongdoing of their fathers.
Nehemiah 9:3
And for a fourth part of the day, upright in their places, they were reading from the book of the law of their God; and for a fourth part of the day they were requesting forgiveness and worshipping the Lord their God.
Hosea 9:4
They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.
Joel 1:14
Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.
Joel 2:12
But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:
Joel 2:14
May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?
Jonah 3:10
And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.
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2 Kings 5:7
But the king of Israel, after reading the letter, was greatly troubled and said, Am I God, to give death and life? why does this man send a leper to me to be made well? is it not clear that he is looking for a cause of war?
Isaiah 37:1
And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.
Jeremiah 36:24
But they had no fear and gave no signs of grief, not the king or any of his servants, after hearing all these words.
Joel 2:13
Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.
Joel 2:15
Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:
Joel 2:16
Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.
Joel 2:18
Then the Lord had a care for the honour of his land and had pity on his people.
Jonah 3:5
And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.
Jonah 3:6
And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.
Jonah 3:7
And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:
Jonah 3:8
And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.
Jonah 3:9
Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?
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Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus gave a loud cry, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why are you turned away from me?
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Luke 13:26
Then you will say, We have taken food and drink with you, and you were teaching in our streets.
Luke 13:27
But he will say, Truly, I have no knowledge of you or where you come from; go away from me, you workers of evil.
Luke 13:28
There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.
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Psalms 42:9
I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
Psalms 43:2
You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
Psalms 137:2
Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.
Psalms 137:3
For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.
Psalms 137:4
How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?
Psalms 137:5
If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.
Isaiah 66:10
Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:
Lamentations 3:41
Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
Daniel 10:2
In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks.
2 Corinthians 7:7
And not by his coming only, but by the comfort which he had in you, while he gave us word of your desire, your sorrow, your care for me; so that I was still more glad.
2 Corinthians 12:21
And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.
Revelation 11:5
And if any man would do them damage, fire comes out of their mouth and puts an end to those who are working against them: and if any man has a desire to do them damage, in this way will he be put to death.
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1 Kings 19:18
But I will keep safe seven thousand in Israel, all those whose knees have not been bent to Baal, and whose mouths have given him no kisses.
Daniel 1:1
In the third year of the rule of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, shutting it in with his forces.
Acts 7:59
And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit.
Ephesians 1:16
Give praise without end for you, keeping you in mind in my prayers;
Ephesians 1:17
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
Ephesians 1:18
And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,
Ephesians 1:19
And how unlimited is his power to us who have faith, as is seen in the working of the strength of his power,
Philippians 2:10
So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld,
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Exodus 32:21
And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?
Exodus 32:32
But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out of your book.
Numbers 16:15
Then Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, Give no attention to their offering: not one of their asses have I taken, or done wrong to any of them.
Numbers 16:46
And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting.
1 Samuel 8:6
But Samuel was not pleased when they said to him, Give us a king to be our judge. And Samuel made prayer to the Lord.
1 Samuel 15:11
It is no longer my pleasure for Saul to be king; for he is turned back from going in my ways, and has not done my orders. And Samuel was very sad, crying to the Lord in prayer all night.
Psalms 109:4
For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.
Luke 6:11
But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus.
Luke 6:12
And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.
Acts 10:9
Now the day after, when they were on their journey and were near the town, Peter went up to the top of the house for prayer, about the sixth hour:
Philippians 4:6
Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.
James 1:5
But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.
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