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Holy Bible (Douay Rheims)

besought

Gen 25:21 And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.
Gen 42:21 And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.
Ex 32:11 But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy indignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand?
Deut 3:23 And I besought the Lord at that time, saying:
Deut 9:25 And I lay prostrate before the Lord forty days and nights, in which I humbly besought him, that he would not destroy you as he had threatened:
II Ki 12:16 And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground.
III Ki 13:6 And the king said to the man of God: Entreat the face of the Lord thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me. And the man of God besought the face of the Lord, and the king's hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.
IV Ki 1:13 Again he sent a third captain of fifty men, and the fifty that were with him. And when he was come, he fell upon his knees, before Elias, and besought him and said: Man of God, despise not my life, and the lives of thy servants that are with me.
IV Ki 13:4 But Joachaz besought the face of the Lord, and the Lord heard him: for he saw the distress of Israel, because the king of Syria had oppressed them:
II Par 33:13 And he entreated him, and besought him earnestly: and he heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and Manasses knew that the Lord was God.
I Esd 8:23 And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us.
Tob 3:11 But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would deliver her from this reproach.
Esth 8:3 And not content with these things, she fell down at the king's feet and wept, and speaking to him besought him, that he would give orders that the malice of Aman the Agagite, and his most wicked devices which he had invented against the Jews, should be of no effect.
Esth 13:8 But Mardochai besought the Lord, remembering all his works,
Wis 8:21 And as I knew that I could not otherwise be continent, except God gave it, and this also was a point of wisdom, to know whose gift it was: I went to the Lord, and besought him, and said with my whole heart:
Eccli 50:21 And the people in prayer besought the Lord the most High, until the worship of the Lord was perfected, and they had finished their office.
II Mac 8:14 Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought the Lord, that he would deliver them from the wicked Nicanor, who had sold them before he came near them:
II Mac 8:29 When this was done, and they had all made a common supplication, they besought the merciful Lord to be reconciled to his servants unto the end.
II Mac 10:4 And when they had done these things, they besought the Lord, lying prostrate on the ground, that they might no more fall into such evils; but if they should at any time sin, that they might be chastised by him more gently, and not be delivered up to barbarians and blasphemous men.
II Mac 10:26 And lying prostrate at the foot of the altar, besought him to be merciful to them, and to be an enemy to their enemies, and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law saith.
II Mac 11:6 But when Machabeus and they that were with him, understood that the strong holds were besieged, they and all the people besought the Lord with lamentations and tears, that he would send a good angel to save Israel.
II Mac 12:11 And after a hard fight, in which by the help of God they got the victory, the rest of the Arabians being overcome, besought Judas for peace, promising to give him pastures, and to assist him in other things.
II Mac 12:24 And Timotheus himself fell into the hands of the band of Dositheus and Sosipater, and with many prayers he besought them to let him go with his life, because he had the parents and brethren of many of the Jews, who, by his death, might happen to be deceived.
II Mac 12:42 And so betaking themselves to prayers, they besought him, that the sin which had been committed might be forgotten. But the most valiant Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forasmuch as they saw before their eyes what had happened, because of the sins of those that were slain.
II Mac 13:3 Menelaus also joined himself with them: and with great deceitfulness besought Antiochus, not for the welfare of his country, but in hopes that he should be appointed chief ruler.
Mt 8:31 And the devils besought him, saying: If thou cast us out hence, send us into the herd of swine.
Mt 8:34 And behold the whole city went out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart from their coasts.
Mt 14:36 And they besought him that they might touch but the hem of his garment. And as many as touched, were made whole.
Mt 15:23 Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us:
Mt 18:26 But that servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Mt 18:29 And his fellow servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Mk 5:10 And he besought him much, that he would not drive him away out of the country.
Mk 5:12 And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
Mk 5:23 And he besought him much, saying: My daughter is at the point of death, come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live.
Mk 6:56 And whithersoever he entered, into towns or into villages or cities, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch but the hem of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
Mk 7:26 For the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophenician born. And she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
Mk 7:32 And they bring to him one deaf and dumb; and they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him.
Mk 8:22 And they came to Bethsaida; and they bring to him a blind man, and they besought him that he would touch him.
Lk 4:38 And Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever, and they besought him for her.
Lk 5:12 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy, who seeing Jesus, and falling on his face, besought him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Lk 7:4 And when they came to Jesus, they besought him earnestly, saying to him: He is worthy that thou shouldest do this for him.
Lk 8:31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
Lk 8:32 And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain; and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
Lk 8:37 And all the multitude of the country of the Gerasens besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear. And he, going up into the ship, returned back again.
Lk 8:38 Now the man, out of whom the devils were departed, besought him that he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying:
Jn 19:31 Then the Jews, (because it was the parasceve,) that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that was a great sabbath day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Jn 19:38 And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews) besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave leave. He came therefore, and took away the body of Jesus.
Acts 16:15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
Acts 16:39 And coming, they besought them; and bringing them out, they desired them to depart out of the city.
Acts 25:2 And the chief priests, and principal men of the Jews, went unto him against Paul: and they besought him,