Beg

‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.’ So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”

After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king was planning a terrible fate for him.

For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.

The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

And he shouted in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You before God not to torture me!”

And the people began to beg Jesus to leave their region.

When the man saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, shouting in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You not to torture me!”

Suddenly a man in the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, for he is my only child.

The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.

‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house,

At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”

And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.

But Paul answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I beg you to allow me to speak to the people.”

But in order not to delay you any further, I beg your indulgence to hear us briefly.

…especially since you are acquainted with all the Jewish customs and controversies. I beg you, therefore, to listen to me patiently.

I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.

I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.

…to a trumpet blast or to a voice that made its hearers beg that no further word be spoken.