2 Samuel 24:21 Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people." (See RSV)

2 Samuel 24:25 And there David put up an altar to the Lord, making burned offerings and peace-offerings. So the Lord gave ear to his prayer for the land, and the disease came to an end in Israel. (See RSV)

1 Chronicles 21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar here to the Lord: let me have it for its full price; so that this disease may be stopped among the people. (See RSV)

Ezra 10:14 Let now our princes of all the congregation stand, and let all them that are in our cities that have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, as touching this matter.' (See RSV)

Ezekiel 7:13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. (See NAS)

Avert (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (v.) To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off,
or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted? ...
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Zephaniah (11 Occurrences)
... 21:1) regarding the coming woes which he had denounced, and to entreat the prophet's
intercession that the judgment threatened might be averted (Jeremiah 29:25 ...
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Jabez (3 Occurrences)
... play upon words recurs in his prayer, "that it be not to my sorrow!" His request
was granted, "and the sorrow implied by his ominous name was averted by prayer ...
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Repentance (28 Occurrences)
... to our understanding, God is represented as repenting when delayed penalties are
at last to be inflicted, or when threatened evils have been averted by genuine ...
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Esther (48 Occurrences)
... Jews throughout the Persian empire. By the interposition of Esther this
terrible catastrophe was averted. Haman was hanged on the ...
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Expiation (9 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient
heathen. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. EXPIATION. ...
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Murmuring (14 Occurrences)
... Of the Hebrews in the wilderness, called forth the displeasure of God, which was
only averted by the earnest prayer of Moses (Numbers 11:33, 34; 12; 14:27, 30 ...
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Ahithophel (17 Occurrences)
... that Absalom had sacrificed his one opportunity, and he committed suicide to avoid
participation in the shameful defeat which he saw could not be averted. ...
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Averts (1 Occurrence)

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