Nave’s Topical Bible
Intercession
205 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- OF MAN WITH MAN
- INSTANCES OF
- Reuben for Joseph
- Judah for Joseph
- Pharaoh's chief baker for Joseph
- Jonathan for David
- Abigail for Nabal
- Joab for Absalom
- Bath-sheba
- For Solomon
- For Adonijah
- Ebed-melech for Jeremiah
- Elisha offers to see the king for the Shunammite woman
- The king of Syria for Naaman
- Paul for Onesimus
- OF MAN WITH GOD
Genesis 20:7; Exodus 28:12,29-30,38; Exodus 32:9-14; Numbers 6:23-26; Numbers 14:11-21; Numbers 16:46-50; Deuteronomy 5:5; Deuteronomy 7:9; Deuteronomy 9:18,20,25-29; 1 Samuel 7:5-8; 1 Samuel 12:23; 1 Samuel 15:24-26,30; Job 1:5; Job 9:32-33; Job 16:21; Job 42:8-10; Psalms 122:6; Isaiah 62:6-7; Isaiah 65:8; Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 7:16; Jeremiah 11:14; Jeremiah 14:11; Jeremiah 15:1; Jeremiah 29:7; Ezekiel 22:30; Matthew 8:5-13; Mark 6:55-56; Ephesians 6:18; 1 Timothy 2:1-2; Hebrews 13:18; James 5:14-20; 1 Peter 2:5,9; 1 John 5:16
- EXEMPLIFIED
Genesis 48:15-20; Exodus 32:31-32; Exodus 34:9; Numbers 10:35-36; Numbers 27:16-17; Joshua 7:7-26; Judges 5:31; Ruth 2:12; 1 Samuel 1:17; 1 Samuel 12:23; 2 Samuel 24:17; 1 Kings 8:29,38-39,44-45; 1 Chronicles 29:18-19; 2 Chronicles 6:40-41; 2 Chronicles 30:18-19; Psalms 7:9; Psalms 12:1; Psalms 20:1-4; Psalms 25:22; Psalms 28:9; Psalms 36:10; Psalms 51:18; Psalms 80:1-2,14-15,17,19; Psalms 122:7-8; Psalms 125:4; Psalms 132:8-10; Psalms 134:3; Psalms 141:5; Isaiah 62:1; Isaiah 63:17-19; Isaiah 64:8-12; Jeremiah 18:20; Ezekiel 9:8; Ezekiel 11:13; Daniel 9:3-19; Joel 2:17; Micah 7:14; Matthew 5:44; Matthew 6:10; Acts 7:60; Acts 8:15; Romans 1:9; Romans 10:1; 1 Corinthians 1:3; 2 Corinthians 9:10,14; 2 Corinthians 13:7; Galatians 1:3; Galatians 6:16; Ephesians 1:15-19; Ephesians 3:14-19; Philippians 1:3-5,9-10; Colossians 1:3-4,9; Colossians 2:1-2; Colossians 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:2; 1 Thessalonians 3:10,12-13; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 2 Thessalonians 1:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17; 2 Thessalonians 3:5,16; 2 Timothy 1:3,18; 2 Timothy 2:7; 2 Timothy 4:16; Philippians 1:4-6; Hebrews 13:20-21; 1 Peter 5:10
- ADDITIONAL INSTANCES OF
- Abraham
- In behalf of Sodom
- In behalf of Abimelech
- Abraham's servant, in behalf of his master
- Jacob, in behalf of his children
- Moses, in behalf of Pharaoh
- Moses
- For Israel
Numbers 16:20-22; Numbers 21:7; Deuteronomy 33:6-17; Psalms 106:23
- For Miriam
- For Israel
- David, for Israel
- Solomon, for Israel
- Ezra, for Israel
- Nehemiah, in behalf of Judah and Jerusalem
- Asaph, for the congregation
- Korah, for the congregation
- Jeremiah, for Israel
- Amos, for Israel
- The Syro-Phoenician woman, for her daughter
- The disciples, in behalf of Peter's mother-in-law
- Parents, for their epileptic son
- Others, who sought Jesus in behalf of afflicted people
Matthew 12:22; Matthew 15:22,30; Matthew 17:14-18; Mark 1:32; Mark 2:3; Luke 5:18-20; John 4:47,49
- Paul, for God's people
- Onesiphorus
- For Paul, by the congregations
- Abraham
- SOLICITED
- Instances of
- By Pharaoh, of Moses
- And by the Israelites
- By Israel, of Samuel
- By Jeroboam, of a prophet
- By Hezekiah, of Isaiah
- By Zedekiah, of Jeremiah
- And by Johanan
- By Daniel, of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego
- By Darius, of the Jews
- By Simon Magus, of Peter
- By Paul, of the congregations
Romans 15:30-32; 2 Corinthians 1:11; Ephesians 6:19-20; 1 Thessalonians 5:25; 2 Thessalonians 3:1; Hebrews 13:18
- Instances of
- ANSWERED
- Instances of
Of Moses, in behalf of Pharaoh
- For the plague of frogs to be abated
- For the plague of flies
- For the plague of rain, thunder, and hail
- For the plague of locusts
- For the plague of darkness
Of Moses, for the Israelites
- During the battle with the Amalekites
- After the Israelites had made the golden calf
Exodus 32:11-14,31-34; Deuteronomy 9:18-29; Deuteronomy 10:10; Psalms 106:23
- In behalf of Aaron, on account of his sin in making the golden calf
- After the complaining of the people
- When the fire of the Lord consumed the people
- When the people complained on account of the report of the spies
- That the plague of the fiery serpents would stop
- That Miriam's leprosy might be healed
- Of Samuel, for deliverance from the oppressions of the Philistines
- The prophet of Israel, for the restoration of Jeroboam's withered hand
- Of Elijah, for raising the son of the hospitable widow from the dead
- Of Elisha, for raising the son of the Shunammite woman from the dead
- Of Isaiah, in behalf of Hezekiah and the people, to be delivered from Sennacherib
- Instances of
- INTERCESSIONAL INFLUENCE OF THE RIGHTEOUS
Genesis 18:26,29-30,32; Genesis 19:22; Genesis 26:4-5,24; 1 Kings 11:12-13,34; 1 Kings 15:4; 2 Kings 8:19; 2 Chronicles 21:7; Psalms 103:17-18; Isaiah 37:35; Jeremiah 5:1; Ezekiel 14:14,16,18,20; Matthew 24:22; Romans 11:27-28; Revelation 5:8; Revelation 8:3-4
Bible verses about “Intercession”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- 1 Samuel 2:25If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.
- Genesis 37:21And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.
- Genesis 37:22And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
- Genesis 37:26And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
- Genesis 37:27Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.
- Genesis 41:9Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
- Genesis 41:10Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house, both me and the chief baker:
- Genesis 41:11And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
- Genesis 41:12And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
- Genesis 41:13And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
- Genesis 40:14But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
- 1 Samuel 19:1And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
- 1 Samuel 19:2But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
- 1 Samuel 19:3And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.
- 1 Samuel 19:4And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:
- 1 Samuel 19:5For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
- 1 Samuel 19:6And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain.
- 1 Samuel 19:7And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.
- 1 Samuel 25:23And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
- 1 Samuel 25:24And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
- 1 Samuel 25:25Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
- 1 Samuel 25:26Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
- 1 Samuel 25:27And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
- 1 Samuel 25:28I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
- 1 Samuel 25:29Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
- 1 Samuel 25:30And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
- 1 Samuel 25:31That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the Lord shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
- 1 Samuel 25:32And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
- 1 Samuel 25:33And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
- 1 Samuel 25:34For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
- 1 Samuel 25:35So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
- 2 Samuel 14:1Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 14:2And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
- 2 Samuel 14:3And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
- 2 Samuel 14:4And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
- 2 Samuel 14:5And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
- 2 Samuel 14:6And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
- 2 Samuel 14:7And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
- 2 Samuel 14:8And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
- 2 Samuel 14:9And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.