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And Samuel and David for the destruction: and Solomon for them that should come to the sanctuary:
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And Helias for those that received rain; and for the dead, that he might live:
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And Ezechias for the people in the time of Sennacherib: and many for many.
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Even so now, seeing corruption is grown up, and wickedness increased, and the righteous have prayed for the ungodly: wherefore shall it not be so now also?
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He answered me, and said, This present life is not the end where much glory doth abide; therefore have they prayed for the weak.