Jeremiah 42:2

God's Word

They said to him, “Please listen to our request, and pray to the Lord your God for all of us who are left here. As you can see, there are only a few of us left.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:6

Then the king asked the man of God, “Please make an appeal to the Lord your God, and pray for me so that I can use my arm again.” So the man of God made an appeal to the Lord, and the king was able to use his arm again, as he had earlier.

Psalm 119:170

Let my plea for mercy come into your presence. Rescue me as you promised.

Exodus 8:28

Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, but don’t go very far. You may offer sacrifices to the Lord your God in the desert and pray for me.”

Exodus 9:28

Pray to the Lord. We’ve had enough of God’s thunder and hail. I’ll let you go; you don’t have to stay here any longer.”

Isaiah 1:15

So when you stretch out your hands ⌞in prayer⌟, I will turn my eyes away from you. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen because your hands are covered with blood.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of Armies hadn’t left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 37:4

The Lord your God may have heard the words of the field commander. His master, the king of Assyria, sent him to defy the living God. The Lord your God may punish him because of the message that the Lord your God heard. Pray for the few people who are left.”

Isaiah 42:20

You have seen much, but you do not observe anything. Your ears are open, but you hear nothing.

Jeremiah 15:11

The Lord said, “I will certainly rescue you for a good reason. I will certainly make your enemies plead with you in times of disaster and in times of distress.

Jeremiah 2:27

You call wood your father. You call stone your mother. You’ve turned your backs, not your faces, to me. But when you’re in trouble, you ask me to come and rescue you.

Jeremiah 21:2

“Consult the Lord for us, because King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is attacking us. Maybe the Lord will perform miracles for us so that Nebuchadnezzar will retreat.”

Jeremiah 36:7

Maybe their prayers will come into the Lord’s presence, and they will turn from their evil ways. The Lord has threatened these people with his terrifying anger and fury.”

Jeremiah 37:20

But now, Your Majesty, please listen, and accept my plea for mercy. Don’t return me to the scribe Jonathan’s house, or I will die there.”

Jeremiah 37:3

King Zedekiah sent Jehucal (son of Shelemiah) and the priest Zephaniah (son of Maaseiah) to the prophet Jeremiah. They asked him, “Please pray to the Lord our God for us.”

Jeremiah 38:14

King Zedekiah sent for the prophet Jeremiah and brought him to the third entrance in the Lord’s temple. “I’m going to ask you a question,” the king said to Jeremiah. “Don’t hide anything from me.”

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan, Kareah’s son, secretly asked Gedaliah at Mizpah, “Let me kill Ishmael, Nethaniah’s son. No one will know about it. Why should he kill you? All the Jews who have gathered around you would scatter. What is left of Judah would disappear.”

Jeremiah 42:20

You only deceived yourselves when you sent me to the Lord your God and said, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us, and tell us everything that the Lord our God says, and we’ll do it.’

Lamentations 1:1

“Look how deserted Jerusalem is! Once the city was crowded with people. Once it was important among the nations. Now it is a widow. Once it was a princess among the provinces. Now it does forced labor.

Ezekiel 12:16

However, I will spare a few of them from wars, famines, and plagues. Wherever they go among the nations, they will realize that everything they did was disgusting. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’ ”

Hosea 8:10

Even though they sold themselves among the nations, I will gather them now. They will suffer for a while under the burdens of kings and princes.

Leviticus 26:22

I will send wild animals among you. They will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle, and make you so few that your roads will be deserted.

Amos 7:2

When the locusts had finished eating every plant in the land, I said, “Almighty Lord, please forgive us! How can ⌞the descendants of⌟ Jacob survive? There are so few of them.”

Matthew 24:22

If God does not reduce the number of those days, no one will be saved. But those days will be reduced because of those whom God has chosen.

Acts 8:24

Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me that none of the things you said will happen to me.”

Deuteronomy 28:62

At one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky. But only a few of you will be left, because you didn’t obey the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:63

At one time the Lord was more than glad to make you prosperous and numerous. Now the Lord will be more than glad to destroy you and wipe you out. You will be torn out of the land you’re about to enter and take possession of.

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among the people of the world, and only a few of you will be left among the nations where the Lord will force you to live.

James 5:16

So admit your sins to each other, and pray for each other so that you will be healed. Prayers offered by those who have God’s approval are effective.

1 Samuel 12:19

All the people pleaded with Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for us so that we will not die. We have added ⌞another⌟ evil thing to all our other sins by asking for a king.”

1 Samuel 12:23

It would be unthinkable for me to sin against the Lord by failing to pray for you. I will go on teaching you the way that is good and right.

1 Samuel 7:8

The Israelites said to Samuel, “Don’t turn a deaf ear to us! Don’t stop crying to the Lord our God for us! Ask him to save us from the Philistines!”