'Request' in the Bible

And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

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.

Lord, you have heard the request of the oppressed; you make them feel secure because you listen to their prayer.

Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden 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.

Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.

when he responds to the prayer of the destitute, and does not reject their request.

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 leanness into their soul.

He has let my request come before him, and I will make my prayer to him all my days.

Let my request come before you; deliver me, as you have promised.

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.

LORD, hear my prayer; pay attention to my request, because you are faithful; answer me 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.

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?

Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God, Make deep the request, or make it high upwards.'

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?

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.

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.

Seek peace and well-being for the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf; for in its peace (well-being) you will have peace.’

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 was presenting my request to the king that I not be taken back to the house of Jonathan to die there.'"

They said to him, "Please grant our request and pray to the Lord your God for all those of us who are still left alive here. For, as you yourself can see, there are only a few of us left out of the many there were before.

He told them, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says, to whom you sent me to take your request:

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 request compassion from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

At Daniel’s request, the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to manage the province of Babylon. But Daniel remained at the king’s court.

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 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 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.

"While I was still speaking in prayer, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and placing my request in the presence of the LORD my God on behalf of the holy mountain of 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;

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.

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.

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?

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.

When He had dismissed the people and had returned to the house, His disciples came to Him with the request, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel sown in the field."

So he gave her his word with an oath to let her have whatever she might make request for.

And [although] the king was distressed, because of his oaths and his {dinner guests} he commanded [the request] to be granted.

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.

Furthermore, I tell all of you with certainty that if two of you agree on earth about anything you request, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven,

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 Jesus with her sons, bowing down and making a request of Him.

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 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.

Immediately the girl hurried back to the king with her request, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter."

Although it grieved the king deeply, he did not want to reject her request because of his oath and his guests.

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 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.

So the crowd came and began to request that Pilate do for them what he always did.

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.

But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Then He got up and left the synagogue, and entered Simon’s home. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Him to help her.

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 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.

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?