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42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; there he bowed himself down upon the earth and put his face between his knees.(A)

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About noon the next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.(A)

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Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

12 Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.(A)

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35 And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.(A)

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23 And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,(A)

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“Righteousness is on your side, O Lord, but open shame, as at this day, falls on us, the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them because of the treachery that they have committed against you.(A)

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Then I turned to the Lord God to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.(A)

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Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord:

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a God feared in the council of the holy ones,
    great and awesome[a] above all who are around him?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 89.7 Gk Syr: Heb greatly awesome

and said,

“O my God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.(A)

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13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”(A)

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19 Now therefore have all Israel assemble for me at Mount Carmel, with the four hundred fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel’s table.”(A)

Elijah’s Triumph over the Priests of Baal

20 So Ahab sent to all the Israelites and assembled the prophets at Mount Carmel.

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16 David therefore pleaded with God for the child; David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.(A)

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Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust on their heads.(A)

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52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the ground before the Lord.(A)

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16 Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.(A) 17 Elijah was a human like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.(B) 18 Then he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth yielded its harvest.(C)

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Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.(A)

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