Numbers 11:2
Good News Translation
The people cried out to Moses for help; he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

New Revised Standard Version
But the people cried out to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated.

Contemporary English Version
When the people begged Moses to help, he prayed, and the fire went out.

New American Bible
But when the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died out.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the people cried to Moses, Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was swallowed up.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when the people cried to Moses, Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was swallowed up.

cried

Numbers 21:7 Upon which they came to Moses, and said; We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

Psalm 78:34,35 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning. . . .

Jeremiah 37:3 And king Sedecias sent Juchal the son of Selemias, and Sophonias the son of Maasias the priest to Jeremiah the prophet, saying: Pray to the Lord our God for us.

Jeremiah 42:2 And they said to Jeremiah the prophet: Let our supplication fall before thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us.

Acts 8:24 Then Simon answering, said: Pray you for me to the Lord that none of these things which you have spoken may come upon me.

prayer

Numbers 14:13-20 And Moses said to the Lord: That the Egyptians, from the midst of whom thou hast brought forth this people, . . .

Genesis 18:23-33 And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked? . . .

Exodus 32:10-14,31,32,34 Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make of thee a great nation. . . .

Deuteronomy 9:19,20 For I feared his indignation and anger, wherewith being moved against you, he would have destroyed you. And the Lord heard me this time also. . . .

Psalm 106:23 And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Isaiah 37:4 It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabsaces, whom the king of the Assyrians his master hath sent to blaspheme the living God, and to reproach with words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up by prayer for the remnant that is left.

Jeremiah 15:1 And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and let them go forth.

Amos 7:2-6 These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the locust was formed in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter rain, and lo, it was the latter rain after the king's mowing. . . .

James 5:16 Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

1 John 5:16 He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let him ask: and life shall be given to him who sinneth not to death. There is a sin unto death. For that I say not that any man ask.

the fire

Numbers 16:45-48 Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground, . . .

Hebrews 7:26 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

1 John 2:1,2 My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just. . . .

was quenched.

Context
The Complaints of the People
1In the mean time there arose a murmuring of the people against the Lord, as it were repining at their fatigue. And when the Lord heard it he was angry. And the fire of the Lord being kindled against them, devoured them that were at the uttermost part of the camp. 2And when the people cried to Moses, Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was swallowed up.3And he called the name of that place, The burning: for that the fire of the Lord had been kindled against them.…
Cross References
Numbers 12:11
He said to Moses: I beseech thee, my lord, lay not upon us this sin, which we have foolishly committed:

Numbers 12:13
And Moses cried to the Lord, saying O God, I beseech thee heal her.

Numbers 21:7
Upon which they came to Moses, and said; We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

Numbers 11:1
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