Genesis 20:17

20:17 Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

Isaiah 60:14

60:14 The children of your oppressors will come bowing to you;

all who treated you with disrespect will bow down at your feet.

They will call you, ‘The City of the Lord,

Zion of the Holy One of Israel.’ ¹ 

Jeremiah 14:11

Judgment for Believing the Misleading Lies of the False Prophets

14:11 Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for good to come to these people! ² 

Jeremiah 15:1

15:1 Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for ³  these people, I would not feel pity for them! ⁴  Get them away from me! Tell them to go away! ⁵ 

Ezekiel 14:14

14:14 Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, ⁶  and Job, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, declares the sovereign Lord.

Hebrews 7:25

7:25 So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

James 5:14

5:14 Is anyone among you ill? He should summon the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint ⁷  him with oil in the name of the Lord.

James 5:1

Warning to the Rich

5:1 Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud ⁸  over the miseries that are coming on you.

James 5:6

5:6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you. ⁹ 

Revelation 3:9

3:9 Listen! ¹⁰  I am going to make those people from the synagogue ¹¹  of Satan – who say they are Jews yet ¹²  are not, but are lying – Look, I will make ¹³  them come and bow down ¹⁴  at your feet and acknowledge ¹⁵  that I have loved you.

¹ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

² tn Heb “on behalf of these people for benefit.”

³ tn The words “pleading for” have been supplied in the translation to explain the idiom (a metonymy). For parallel usage see BDB 763 s.v. עָמַד Qal.1.a and compare usage in Gen 19:27, Deut 4:10.

⁴ tn Heb “my soul would not be toward them.” For the usage of “soul” presupposed here see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 6 in the light of the complaints and petitions in Jeremiah’s prayer in 14:19, 21.

⁵ tn Heb “Send them away from my presence and let them go away.”

⁶ sn Traditionally this has been understood as a reference to the biblical Daniel, though he was still quite young when Ezekiel prophesied. One wonders if he had developed a reputation as an intercessor by this point. For this reason some prefer to see a reference to a ruler named Danel, known in Canaanite legend for his justice and wisdom. In this case all three of the individuals named would be non-Israelites, however the Ugaritic Danel is not known to have qualities of faith in the Lord that would place him in the company of the other men. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:447-50.

⁷ tn Grk “anointing.”

⁸ tn Or “wail”; Grk “crying aloud.”

⁹ tn Literally a series of verbs without connectives, “you have condemned, you have murdered…he does not resist.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “behold” (L&N 91.13).

¹¹ sn See the note on synagogue in 2:9.

¹² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “yet” to indicate the contrast between what these people claimed and what they were.

¹³ tn The verb here is ποιέω (poiew), but in this context it has virtually the same meaning as δίδωμι (didwmi) used at the beginning of the verse. Stylistic variation like this is typical of Johannine literature.

¹⁴ tn The verb here is προσκυνήσουσιν (proskunhsousin), normally used to refer to worship.

¹⁵ tn Or “and know,” “and recognize.”