²⁸ So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. ^(A)Intercede for me.”

⁸ So the children of Israel said to Samuel, ^(A)“Do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, that He may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”

¹⁹ And all the people said to Samuel, ^(A)“Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins the evil of asking a king for ourselves.”

⁶ Then the king answered and said to the man of God, “Please ^(A)entreat the favor of the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.”

So the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and became as before.

⁴ It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to ^(A)reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

³ And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and ^(A)Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, ^(B)“Pray now to the Lord our God for us.”

²⁴ Then Simon answered and said, ^(A)“Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may come upon me.”

^16 [a]Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. ^(A)The effective, ^[b]fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.