Thematic Bible: Pray for those under

So I directed my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes. Verse ConceptsFasting, Practice OfFasting, Nature OfFasting, Examples OfAshesAsceticism, TypesPrayer, Practicalities OfSackcloth And AshesFasting, Accompanied ByAshes Of HumiliationFastingFasting And Prayersupplicationpetition

But Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why does Your wrath blaze hot against Your people, whom You have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, For evil He brought them forth, to slay them in the mountains and consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and change Your mind concerning this evil against Your people. [Earnestly] remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.

So the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire died out. Verse ConceptsQuenchingExtinguishingPraying For SinnersGod's Intervention