kjv@Genesis:12:18 @ And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
kjv@Genesis:25:22 @ And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
kjv@Genesis:27:45 @ Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
kjv@Genesis:47:15 @ And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
kjv@Exodus:2:20 @ And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
kjv@Exodus:3:3 @ And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
kjv@Exodus:5:22 @ And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?
kjv@Exodus:18:14 @ And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
kjv@Exodus:32:11 @ And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
kjv@Numbers:20:4 @ And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
kjv@Deuteronomy:5:25 @ Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.
kjv@Joshua:5:4 @ And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
kjv@Judges:2:2 @ And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
kjv@Judges:5:17 @ Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
kjv@Judges:6:13 @ And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
kjv@Judges:9:28 @ And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him?
kjv@Judges:11:7 @ And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
kjv@Judges:11:26 @ While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?
kjv@Judges:21:3 @ And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
kjv@Ruth:1:11 @ And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
kjv@Ruth:1:21 @ I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
kjv@1Samuel:1:8 @ Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
kjv@1Samuel:6:3 @ And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
kjv@1Samuel:20:2 @ And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.
kjv@1Samuel:20:8 @ Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
kjv@1Samuel:27:5 @ And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
kjv@2Samuel:3:24 @ Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?
kjv@2Samuel:11:10 @ And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?
kjv@2Samuel:11:21 @ Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
kjv@2Samuel:16:17 @ And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
kjv@2Samuel:18:11 @ And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
kjv@2Samuel:19:10 @ And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
kjv@2Samuel:19:36 @ Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
kjv@2Samuel:19:43 @ And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
kjv@2Samuel:20:19 @ I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
kjv@2Samuel:24:3 @ And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
kjv@1Kings:1:13 @ Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
kjv@1Kings:2:22 @ And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
kjv@1Kings:14:6 @ And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
kjv@2Kings:14:10 @ Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
kjv@1Chronicles:21:3 @ And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
kjv@2Chronicles:25:16 @ And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
kjv@2Chronicles:25:19 @ Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
kjv@Ezra:4:22 @ Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
kjv@Ezra:7:23 @ Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
kjv@Nehemiah:2:3 @ And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
kjv@Nehemiah:6:3 @ And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
kjv@Esther:4:5 @ Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.
kjv@Job:7:20 @ I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
kjv@Job:7:21 @ And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
kjv@Job:21:4 @ As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
kjv@Job:27:12 @ Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
kjv@Job:31:1 @ I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
kjv@Psalms:22:1 @ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
kjv@Psalms:43:2 @ For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
kjv@Psalms:44:23 @ Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
kjv@Psalms:74:1 @ O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
kjv@Psalms:88:14 @ LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
kjv@Proverbs:5:20 @ And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
kjv@Proverbs:22:27 @ If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
kjv@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @ Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
kjv@Ecclesiastes:7:16 @ Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
kjv@Ecclesiastes:7:17 @ Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
kjv@Songs:1:7 @ Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
kjv@Isaiah:63:17 @ O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
kjv@Jeremiah:8:22 @ Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
kjv@Jeremiah:14:8 @ O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
kjv@Jeremiah:14:19 @ Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
kjv@Jeremiah:29:27 @ Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
kjv@Jeremiah:49:1 @ Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
kjv@Ezekiel:18:31 @ Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
kjv@Ezekiel:33:11 @ Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
kjv@Daniel:1:10 @ And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
kjv@Micah:4:9 @ Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
kjv@Malachi:2:10 @ Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
kjv@Matthew:6:28 @ And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
kjv@Matthew:7:3 @ And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
kjv@Matthew:16:8 @ Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
kjv@Matthew:27:46 @ And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
kjv@Mark:2:24 @ And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
kjv@Mark:5:35 @ While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?
kjv@Mark:14:6 @ And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
kjv@Mark:15:34 @ And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
kjv@Luke:2:48 @ And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
kjv@Luke:6:41 @ And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
kjv@Luke:6:46 @ And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
kjv@Luke:12:26 @ If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
kjv@Luke:12:57 @ Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?
kjv@Luke:13:7 @ Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
kjv@John:8:46 @ Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
kjv@John:10:20 @ And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
kjv@John:13:37 @ Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.
kjv@John:18:23 @ Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
kjv@John:20:13 @ And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
kjv@John:20:15 @ Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
kjv@Acts:1:11 @ Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
kjv@Acts:3:12 @ And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
kjv@Acts:5:3 @ But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
kjv@Acts:5:4 @ Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
kjv@Acts:7:26 @ And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
kjv@Acts:9:4 @ And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
kjv@Acts:14:15 @ And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
kjv@Acts:15:10 @ Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
kjv@Acts:22:7 @ And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
kjv@Acts:22:16 @ And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
kjv@Acts:26:14 @ And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
kjv@Romans:3:7 @ For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
kjv@Romans:8:24 @ For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
kjv@Romans:14:10 @ But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
kjv@1Corinthians:4:7 @ For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
kjv@1Corinthians:10:29 @ Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
kjv@1Corinthians:10:30 @ For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
kjv@1Corinthians:15:29 @ Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
kjv@Galatians:2:14 @ But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
kjv@Galatians:5:11 @ And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.