Speaking to God. However, all speech addressed to a member of the Trinity is not equivalent with all of the prayers found in the Bible. Many of these instances of speech are not instances of prayer, so they have been filtered out. In addition to prayer addressed to members of the Trinity, the Bible records an instance of prayer to a pagan deity (1Ki 18:26). This has been included in the analysis. Passages like Is 44:17, in which prayer to pagan deities is mocked, and Ezk 28:2-10,