'Appeal' in the Bible
Pharaoh responded, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, but don’t go very far. Make an appeal for me.”
“As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will appeal to the Lord, and tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceptively again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the Lord.”
Make an appeal to Yahweh. There has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don’t need to stay any longer.”
Please forgive my sin once more and make an appeal to Yahweh your God, so that He will take this death away from me.”
When the woman returned from the land of the Philistines at the end of seven years, she went to appeal to the king for her house and field.
While he was telling the king how Elisha restored the dead son to life, the woman whose son he had restored to life came to appeal to the king for her house and field. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”
However, if I were you, I would appeal to Godand would present my case to Him.
I love the Lord because He has heardmy appeal for mercy.
If then I am doing wrong, or have done anything deserving of death, I do not refuse to die, but if there is nothing to what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
Because the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar; it was not as though I had any accusation against my nation.
Working together with Him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive God’s grace in vain.”
Now I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you by the gentleness and graciousness of Christ—I who am humble among you in person but bold toward you when absent.
I appeal to you, instead, on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an elderly man and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus,
appeal to you for my son, Onesimus. I fathered him while I was in chains.