'Pleaded' in the Bible

"But the gardener pleaded, "'Leave it, Sir, this year also, till I have dug round it and manured it.

"A second pleaded, "'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and am on my way to try them. Pray hold me excused.'

"'No, father Abraham,' he pleaded; 'but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'

"Sir," pleaded the officer, "come down before my child dies."

God has not cast off His People whom He knew beforehand. Or are you ignorant of what Scripture says in speaking of Elijah--how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

For Jesus during his earthly life offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud and weeping as He pleaded with Him who was able to bring Him in safety out of death, and He was delivered from the terror from which He shrank.