Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And Esther was looked on kindly by all who saw her.
And he gave him the copy of the order which had been given out in Shushan for their destruction, ordering him to let Esther see it, and to make it clear to her; and to say to her that she was to go in to the king, requesting his mercy, and making prayer for her people.
Then the king said, What is your desire, Queen Esther, and what is your request? I will give it to you, even to the half of my kingdom.
And while they were drinking wine the king said to Esther, What is your prayer? for it will be given to you and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.
Then Esther said in answer, My prayer and my request is this:
If I have the king's approval, and if it is the king's pleasure to give me my prayer and do my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast which I will make ready for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.
And the king said to Esther again on the second day, while they were drinking, What is your prayer, queen Esther? for it will be given to you; and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.
Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request:
Then Esther again came before the king, falling down at his feet, and made request to him with weeping, that he would put a stop to the evil purposes of Haman the Agagite and the designs which he had made against the Jews.
And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have put five hundred men to death in Shushan, as well as the ten sons of Haman: what then have they done in the rest of the kingdom! Now what is your prayer? for it will be given to you; what other request have you? and it will be done.
If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;
Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.
Make your request to me, and I will give you the nations for your heritage, and the farthest limits of the earth will be under your hand.
The Lord has given ear to my request; the Lord has let my prayer come before him.
We will be glad in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will put up our flags: may the Lord give you all your requests.
You have given him his heart's desire, and have not kept back the request of his lips. (Selah.)
He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.
You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.
<To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David.> Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.
Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.
O Lord, give ear to my prayer; and take note of the sound of my requests.
When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
At the people's request he sent birds, and gave them the bread of heaven for food.
And he gave them their request, but sent a wasting disease into their souls.
He has let my request come before him, and I will make my prayer to him all my days.
For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.
<A Psalm. Of David.> Let my prayer come to you, O Lord; give ear to my requests for your grace; keep faith with me, and give me an answer in your righteousness;
Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;
Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.
The poor man makes requests for grace, but the man of wealth gives a rough answer.
The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.
I have made request to you for two things; do not keep them from me before my death:
At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?
Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.
But Ahaz said, I will not put the Lord to the test by making such a request.
And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?
You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.
I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.
Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.
So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.
And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.
And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.
But if they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them now make request to the Lord of armies that the vessels which are still in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.
And Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made a strong request to the king not to let the book be burned, but he would not give ear to them.
Then you are to say to them, I made my request to the king, that he would not send me back to my death in Jonathan's house.
And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:
And said to them, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to put your request before him:
And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.
Then the Chaldaeans said to the king in answer, There is not a man on earth able to make clear the king's business; for no king, however great his power, has ever made such a request to any wonder-worker or user of secret arts or Chaldaean.
The king's request is a very hard one, and there is no other who is able to make it clear to the king, but the gods, whose living-place is not with flesh.
And Daniel went in and made a request to the king to give him time and he would make clear the sense of his dream to the king.
So that they might make a request for the mercy of the God of heaven in the question of this secret; so that Daniel and his friends might not come to destruction with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
I give you praise and worship, O God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and strength, and have now made clear to me what we were requesting from you: for you have given us knowledge of the king's business.
And at Daniel's request, the king gave Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego authority over the business of the land of Babylon: but Daniel was kept near the king's person.
All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.
Then these men were watching and saw Daniel making prayers and requesting grace before his God.
Then they came near before the king and said, O King, have you not put your name to an order that any man who makes a request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole? The king made answer and said, The thing is fixed by the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.
And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.
And now, give ear, O our God, to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, and let your face be shining on your holy place which is made waste, because of your servants, O Lord.
And while I was still saying these words in prayer, and putting my sins and the sins of my people Israel before the Lord, and requesting grace from the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;
He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;
Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
And the red ones go to the east; and they made request that they might go up and down through the earth: and he said, Go up and down through the earth. So they went up and down through the earth.
Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,
And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you.
And great peoples and strong nations will come to give worship to the Lord of armies in Jerusalem and to make requests for grace from the Lord.
Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.
And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies.
Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.
So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.
Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:
Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
Or which of you, if his son makes a request for bread, will give him a stone?
Or if he makes a request for a fish, will give him a snake?
If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?
And when Jesus was come into Capernaum, a certain captain came to him with a request,
And all the town came out to Jesus; and seeing him they made request that he would go away from their part of the country.
So he gave her his word with an oath to let her have whatever she might make request for.
With the request that they might only put their hands on the edge of his robe: and all those who did so were made well.
And the pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven.
Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
So that servant went down on his face, requesting him and saying, Give me time and I will make payment to you.
Then his lord sent for him and said, You evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me:
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, giving him worship and making a request of him.
But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?
And all things, whatever you make request for in prayer, having faith, you will get.
Does it not seem possible to you that if I make request to my Father he will even now send me an army of angels?
Now the chief priests and those in authority got the people to make request for Barabbas, and for Jesus to be put to death.
This man went in to Pilate, and made a request for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate gave orders for it to be given to him.
And a leper came to him and, going down on his knees before him, made a request, saying, If it is your pleasure, you have the power to make me clean.
And he made a request to his disciples to have a little boat ready for him, so that he might not be crushed by the people;
And his mother and brothers came and were outside, and sent for him, requesting to see him.
And they made a request to him to go out of their country.
And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and did a dance, Herod and those who were at table with him were pleased with her; and the king said to the girl, Make a request for anything and I will give it you.
And she went out and said to her mother, What is my request to be? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
And wherever he went, into small towns, or great towns, or into the country, they took those who were ill into the market-places, requesting him that they might put their hands even on the edge of his robe: and all those who did so were made well.
Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by birth: and she made a request to him that he would send the evil spirit out of her daughter.
And they came to him with one who had no power of hearing and had trouble in talking; and they made a request to him to put his hands on him.
And he gave them orders not to give news of it to anyone; but the more he made this request, so much the more they made it public.
And the Pharisees came out and put questions to him, requesting from him a sign from heaven, testing him.
And they came to Beth-saida. And they took a blind man to him, requesting him to put his hands on him.
And wherever it takes him, it puts him down violently, streaming at the lips and twisted with pain; and his strength goes from him; and I made a request to your disciples to send it out, and they were not able.
And there came to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying to him, Master, will you give us whatever may be our request?
For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.
And he went forward a little, and falling down on the earth, made request that, if possible, the hour might go from him.
Now at the feast every year he let one prisoner go free at their request.
And the people went up, requesting him to do as he had done for them in other years.
There came Joseph of Arimathaea, a responsible man in high honour, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God; and he went in to Pilate without fear, and made a request for the body of Jesus.
And he got into one of the boats, the property of Simon, and made a request to him to go a little way out from the land. And being seated he gave the people teaching from the boat.
Give to everyone who comes with a request, and if a man takes away your property, make no attempt to get it back again.
And when news of Jesus came to his ears, he sent to him rulers of the Jews, requesting that he would come and make his servant well.
And they, when they came to Jesus, made their request warmly, saying,
And one of the Pharisees made a request that he would take a meal with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house and took his seat at the table.
And they made a request to him that he would not give them an order to go away into the deep.
Now there was a great herd of pigs in that place, getting food on the mountain: and the evil spirits made a request to him that he would let them go into the pigs, and he let them.
And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes made a request to him to go away from them; for they were in great fear: and he got into a boat and went back.
And a man from among them, crying out, said, Master, I make a request to you, give a thought to my son, for he is my only child:
And I made a request to your disciples to send it out of him, but they were not able to do it.
I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of.
And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you.
For to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire; and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
And which of you, being a father, will give a stone to his son, who makes request for bread? or for a fish, will give him a snake?
If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your father in heaven give the Holy spirit to those who make request to him?
Now, while he was talking, a Pharisee made a request that he would come to a meal with him; and he went in and took his seat at the meal.
But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.
When you get a request to come to a feast, do not take the best seat, for a more important man than you may be coming,
For I say to you that not one of those who were requested to come will have a taste of my feast.
Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.
But he was angry and would not go in; and his father came out and made a request to him to come in.
And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.
And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;
And it came about that when he got near Jericho, a certain blind man was seated by the side of the road, making requests for money from those who went by.
Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested:
And in answer to their request, he let that man go free who had been in prison for acting against the government and causing death, and Jesus he gave up to their pleasure.
This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.
The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria.
So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days.
When it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to death, and make him well.
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