Prayer

A curated set of verses about prayer. These references are selected from the Bible text available on this site.

By BibleInTongues Editorial TeamPublished March 5, 2026Reviewed by BibleInTongues Review Team on March 9, 2026

Verses

  1. 271 Samuel 1:27
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    I prayed for this child, and the LORD has given me my petition which I asked of him.

  2. 161 Samuel 16:16
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    Let our lord now command your servants who are in front of you to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp. Then when the evil spirit from God is on you, he will play with his hand, and you will be well.”

  3. 3Daniel 9:3
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    I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

  4. 22Matthew 21:22
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    All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

  5. 17Genesis 20:17
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    Abraham prayed to God. So God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

  6. 30Exodus 8:30
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    Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the LORD.

  7. 18Exodus 10:18
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    Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to the LORD.

  8. 2Numbers 11:2
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    The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated.

  9. 7Numbers 21:7
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    The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.

  10. 20Deuteronomy 9:20
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    The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

  11. 26Deuteronomy 9:26
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    I prayed to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

  12. 101 Samuel 1:10
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    She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly.

  13. 11 Samuel 2:1
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    Hannah prayed, and said, “My heart exults in the LORD! My horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

  14. 61 Samuel 8:6
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    But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to the LORD.

  15. 272 Samuel 7:27
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    For you, LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.

  16. 142 Samuel 21:14
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    They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.

  17. 281 Kings 8:28
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    Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and for his supplication, LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;

  18. 291 Kings 8:29
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    that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.

  19. 381 Kings 8:38
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    whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

  20. 451 Kings 8:45
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    then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

  21. 491 Kings 8:49
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    then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;

  22. 541 Kings 8:54
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    It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the LORD’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.

  23. 332 Kings 4:33
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    He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to the LORD.

  24. 172 Kings 6:17
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    Elisha prayed, and said, “LORD, please open his eyes, that he may see.” the LORD opened the young man’s eyes, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

  25. 182 Kings 6:18
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    When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” He struck them with blindness according to Elisha’s word.

  26. 42 Kings 19:4
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    It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy 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.’”

  27. 152 Kings 19:15
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    Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, “LORD, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

  28. 202 Kings 19:20
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    Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.

  29. 192 Chronicles 6:19
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    Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;

  30. 202 Chronicles 6:20
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    that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name, to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.

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