1 Kings 18:37
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37 Answer me, O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.”
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Daniel 9:17-19
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17 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord,[a] (A)make your face to shine upon (B)your sanctuary, which is desolate. 18 (C)O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see (D)our desolations, and (E)the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. (F)Delay not, (G)for your own sake, O my God, because (H)your city and (I)your people are called by your name.”
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- Daniel 9:17 Hebrew for the Lord's sake
Luke 1:16-17
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16 And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, 17 and (A)he will go before him (B)in the spirit and power of Elijah, (C)to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and (D)the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, (E)to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”
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Ezekiel 36:25-27
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25 (A)I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from (B)all your uncleannesses, and (C)from all your idols (D)I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you (E)a new heart, and (F)a new spirit I will put within you. (G)And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 (H)And I will put my Spirit within you, (I)and cause you to walk in my statutes and (J)be careful to obey my rules.[a]
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- Ezekiel 36:27 Or my just decrees
1 Kings 18:24
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24 And you call upon the name of your god, and I will call upon the name of the Lord, and the God who (A)answers by fire, he is God.” And all the people answered, “It is well spoken.”
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Luke 11:8
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8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything (A)because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence[a] he will rise and give him whatever he needs.
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- Luke 11:8 Or persistence
Malachi 4:5-6
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5 (A)“Behold, I will send you (B)Elijah the prophet (C)before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 6 And he will (D)turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and (E)strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”[a]
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- Malachi 4:6 The Hebrew term rendered decree of utter destruction refers to things devoted (or set apart) to the Lord (or by the Lord) for destruction
Jeremiah 31:18-19
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18 I have heard (A)Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
like an untrained calf;
(B)bring me back that I may be restored,
for you are the Lord my God.
19 For after (C)I had turned away, I relented,
and after I was instructed, (D)I struck my thigh;
(E)I was ashamed, and I was confounded,
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
Isaiah 37:17-20
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17 (A)Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear (B)all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. 18 Truly, O Lord, (C)the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands, 19 and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. 20 So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.”
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2 Chronicles 32:19-20
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19 And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.
The Lord Delivers Jerusalem
20 Then Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this and cried to heaven.
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2 Chronicles 14:11
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11 And Asa (A)cried to the Lord his God, “O Lord, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, (B)for we rely on you, (C)and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.”
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1 Kings 18:36
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36 And at the time of (A)the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O Lord, (B)God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that (C)you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that (D)I have done all these things at your word.
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1 Kings 18:29
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29 And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of (A)the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.
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Genesis 32:28
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28 Then he said, (A)“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,[a] for (B)you have striven with God and (C)with men, and have prevailed.”
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- Genesis 32:28 Israel means He strives with God, or God strives
Genesis 32:26
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26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, (A)“I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
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Genesis 32:24
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24 And Jacob was left alone. And (A)a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
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James 5:16-17
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16 Therefore, (A)confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, (B)that you may be healed. (C)The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.[a] 17 Elijah was a man (D)with a nature like ours, and (E)he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for (F)three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.
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- James 5:16 Or The effective prayer of a righteous person has great power
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