that they might pray for the mercies of God in Heaven about this secret, that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Perhaps there will be lacking five from the fifty righteous ones, will You destroy all the city for the five? And He said, If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy.
It may be Jehovah your God will hear the words of the chief cupbearer whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and rebuke against the words which Jehovah your God has heard. And you shall lift up prayer for the remnant that is found.
I thank You and praise You, O God of my fathers, who has given me wisdom and might, and has made me know what we ask of You. For You have made known to us the king’s matter.
What does it seem to you? If there be to any man a hundred sheep, and one of them strays away, will he not leave the ninety nine on the mountains, and having gone he seeks the one having strayed?
whom capturing him also, he put him into prison, giving him over to four sets of four soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him up to the people after the Passover.
And David said, Jehovah, who has delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He shall deliver me from the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go, and Jehovah be with you.