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acv@Genesis:4:6 @ And LORD said to Cain, Why are thou angry? And why has thy countenance fallen?

acv@Genesis:12:18 @ And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou have done to me? Why did thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

acv@Genesis:12:19 @ Why did thou say, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore behold thy wife. Take her, and go thy way.

acv@Genesis:18:13 @ And LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I who am old certainly bear a child?

acv@Genesis:24:31 @ And he said, Come in, thou blessed of LORD. Why do thou stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.

acv@Genesis:25:22 @ And the children struggled together within her. And she said, If it be so, why do I live? And she went to inquire of LORD.

acv@Genesis:26:27 @ And Isaac said to them, Why have ye come to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

acv@Genesis:27:45 @ until thy brother's anger turns away from thee, and he forgets that which thou have done to him. Then I will send, and fetch thee from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?

acv@Genesis:29:25 @ And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, What is this thou have done to me? Did I not serve with thee for Rachel? Why then have thou beguiled me?

acv@Genesis:31:27 @ Why did thou flee secretly, and creep away from me, and did not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp,

acv@Genesis:31:30 @ And now, [though] thou have certainly gone, because thou have been very desirous for thy father's house, [yet] why have thou stolen my gods?

acv@Genesis:32:29 @ And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Why is it that thou ask for my name? And he blessed him there.

acv@Genesis:38:29 @ And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out. And she said, Why have thou made a breach for thyself? Therefore his name was called Perez.

acv@Genesis:40:7 @ And he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in ward in his master's house, saying, Why do ye look so sad today?

acv@Genesis:42:1 @ Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt. And Jacob said to his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

acv@Genesis:43:6 @ And Israel said, Why did ye deal so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

acv@Genesis:44:4 @ [And] when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, Up, follow after the men, and when thou overtake them, say to them, Why have ye rewarded evil for good?

acv@Genesis:44:7 @ And they said to him, Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing.

acv@Genesis:47:15 @ And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread, for why should we die in thy presence? For [our] money fails.

acv@Genesis:47:19 @ Why should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land not be desolate.

acv@Exodus:1:18 @ And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the male children alive?

acv@Exodus:2:13 @ And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together. And he said to him who did the wrong, Why do thou smite thy neighbor?

acv@Exodus:2:20 @ And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.

acv@Exodus:3:3 @ And Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

acv@Exodus:5:14 @ And the officers of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Why have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and today, in making brick as formerly?

acv@Exodus:5:15 @ Then the officers of the sons of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why do thou deal thus with thy servants?

acv@Exodus:5:22 @ And Moses returned to LORD, and said, LORD, why have thou dealt ill with this people? Why is it that thou have sent me?

acv@Exodus:14:11 @ and they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

acv@Exodus:14:15 @ And LORD said to Moses, Why do thou cry to me? Speak to the sons of Israel, that they go forward.

acv@Exodus:17:2 @ Therefore the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do ye contend with me? Why do ye challenge LORD?

acv@Exodus:17:3 @ And the people thirsted there for water. And the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why have thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?

acv@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 do to the people? Why do thou sit by thyself, and all the people stand about thee from morning to evening?

acv@Exodus:32:11 @ And Moses besought LORD his God, and said, LORD, why does thy wrath grow hot against thy people, whom thou have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

acv@Exodus:32:12 @ Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, He brought them forth for evil, to kill them on the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and relent of this evil against thy people.

acv@Leviticus:10:17 @ Why have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before LORD?

acv@Numbers:9:7 @ and those men said to him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of LORD in its appointed season among the sons of Israel?

acv@Numbers:11:11 @ And Moses said to LORD, Why have thou dealt ill with thy servant? And why have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou lay the burden of all this people upon me?

acv@Numbers:11:20 @ but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you, because ye have rejected LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt?

acv@Numbers:12:8 @ With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches, and he shall behold the form of LORD. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

acv@Numbers:14:3 @ And why does LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey. Were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

acv@Numbers:14:41 @ And Moses said, Why do ye now transgress the commandment of LORD, seeing it shall not prosper?

acv@Numbers:16:3 @ and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, Ye take too much upon you, since all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and LORD is among them. Why then do ye lift up yourselves

acv@Numbers:20:4 @ And why have ye brought the assembly of LORD into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

acv@Numbers:20:5 @ And why have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink.

acv@Numbers:21:5 @ And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water, and our soul loathes this light bread.

acv@Numbers:22:32 @ And the agent of LORD said to him, Why have thou smitten thy donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because thy way is perverse before me.

acv@Numbers:22:37 @ And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to thee to call thee? Why did thou not come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote thee to honor?

acv@Numbers:27:4 @ Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.

acv@Numbers:32:7 @ And why do ye discourage the heart of the sons of Israel from going over into the land which LORD has given them?

acv@Deuteronomy:5:25 @ Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

acv@Deuteronomy:29:24 @ even all the nations shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land? What is the meaning of the heat of this great anger?

acv@Joshua:5:4 @ And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised: All the people who came forth out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way after they came forth out of Egypt.

acv@Joshua:7:7 @ And Joshua said, Alas, O lord LORD, why have thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? Would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan!

acv@Joshua:7:10 @ And LORD said to Joshua, Get thee up. Why are thou thus fallen upon thy face?

acv@Joshua:7:25 @ And Joshua said, Why have thou troubled us? LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.

acv@Joshua:9:22 @ And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you, when ye dwell among us?

acv@Joshua:17:14 @ And the sons of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have thou given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I am a great people, inasmuch as until now LORD has blessed me?

acv@Judges:2:2 @ And ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. Ye shall break down their altars. But ye have not hearkened to my voice. Why have ye done this?

acv@Judges:5:16 @ Why did thou sit among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

acv@Judges:5:17 @ Gilead abode beyond the Jordan. And Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and abode by his creeks.

acv@Judges:5:28 @ Through the window she looked forth, and cried--the mother of Sisera through the lattice--Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots delay?

acv@Judges:6:13 @ And Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if LORD is with us, then why has all this befallen us? And where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not LORD bring us up from Egypt? But now LORD has cast us of

acv@Judges:8:1 @ And the men of Ephraim said to him, Why have thou done thus to us, that thou did not call us when thou went to fight with Midian? And they chided with him sharply.

acv@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 ye the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?

acv@Judges:11:7 @ And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Did ye not hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? And why have ye come to me now when ye are in distress?

acv@Judges:11:26 @ While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did ye not recover them within that time?

acv@Judges:12:1 @ And the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward. And they said to Jephthah, Why did thou pass over to fight against the sons of Ammon, and did not call us to go with thee? We will burn thy house upon thee with f

acv@Judges:12:3 @ And when I saw that ye did not save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed opposite the sons of Ammon, and LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have ye come up to me this day, to fight against me?

acv@Judges:13:18 @ And the agent of LORD said to him, Why do thou ask after my name, seeing it is wonderful?

acv@Judges:15:10 @ And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they said, We come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.

acv@Judges:21:3 @ And they said, O LORD, the God of Israel, why has this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?

acv@Ruth:1:11 @ And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Why will ye go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

acv@Ruth:1:21 @ I went out full, and LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do ye call me Naomi, seeing LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

acv@Ruth:2:10 @ Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, Why have I found favor in thy sight that thou should take knowledge of me, seeing I am a foreigner?

acv@1Samuel:1:8 @ And Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why do thou weep? And why do thou not eat? And why is thy heart grieved? Am not I better to thee than ten sons?

acv@1Samuel:2:23 @ And he said to them, Why do ye such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

acv@1Samuel:2:29 @ Why do ye kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chief of all the offerings of Israel my people?

acv@1Samuel:4:3 @ And when the people came into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has LORD smitten us today before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of LORD out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out o

acv@1Samuel:6:3 @ And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return for him a trespass-offering. Then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.

acv@1Samuel:6:6 @ Why then do ye harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

acv@1Samuel:9:21 @ And Saul answered and said, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then speak thou to me according to this manner?

acv@1Samuel:15:19 @ Why then did thou not obey the voice of LORD, but did fly upon the spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of LORD?

acv@1Samuel:17:8 @ And he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why have ye come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? Choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.

acv@1Samuel:17:28 @ And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why have thou come down? And with whom have thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and t

acv@1Samuel:19:5 @ For he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and LORD wrought a great victory for all Israel. Thou saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will thou sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?

acv@1Samuel:19:17 @ And Saul said to Michal, Why have thou deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go. Why should I kill thee?

acv@1Samuel:20:2 @ And he said to him, Far from it. Thou shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me, and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.

acv@1Samuel:20:8 @ Therefore deal kindly with thy servant, for thou have brought thy servant into a covenant of LORD with thee. But if there be in me iniquity, kill me thyself, for why should thou bring me to thy father?

acv@1Samuel:20:27 @ And it came to pass on the morrow after the new moon, [which was] the second [day], that David's place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why has the son of Jesse not come in to the food, neither yesterday, nor today?

acv@1Samuel:20:32 @ And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he be put to death? What has he done?

acv@1Samuel:21:1 @ Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, Why are thou alone, and no man with thee?

acv@1Samuel:21:14 @ Then Achish said to his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad. Why then have ye brought him to me?

acv@1Samuel:22:13 @ And Saul said to him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me to lay in wait as at this day?

acv@1Samuel:24:9 @ And David said to Saul, Why do thou hearken to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks thy hurt?

acv@1Samuel:26:15 @ And David said to Abner, Are not thou a [valiant] man? And who is like to thee in Israel? Why then have thou not kept watch over thy lord the king? For there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.

acv@1Samuel:26:18 @ And he said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

acv@1Samuel:27:5 @ And David said to Achish, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country that I may dwell there, for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

acv@1Samuel:28:9 @ And the woman said to him, Behold, thou know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. Why then do thou lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?

acv@1Samuel:28:12 @ And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice. And the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have thou deceived me? For thou are Saul.

acv@1Samuel:28:15 @ And Samuel said to Saul, Why have thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am greatly distressed, for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, no

acv@1Samuel:28:16 @ And Samuel said, Why then do thou ask of me, since LORD departed from thee, and has become thine adversary?

acv@2Samuel:1:14 @ And David said to him, Why were thou not afraid to put forth thy hand to destroy LORD's anointed?

acv@2Samuel:2:22 @ And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me. Why should I smite thee to the ground? How then would I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?

acv@2Samuel:3:7 @ Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And [Ish-bosheth] said to Abner, Why have thou gone in to my father's concubine?

acv@2Samuel:3:24 @ Then Joab came to the king, and said, What have thou done? Behold, Abner came to thee. Why is it that thou have sent him away, and he is quite gone?

acv@2Samuel:7:7 @ In all places in which I have walked with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why have ye not built for me a house of cedar?

acv@2Samuel:11:10 @ And when they had told David, saying, Uriah did not go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Have thou not come from a journey? Why did thou not go down to thy house?

acv@2Samuel:11:20 @ it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he says to thee, Why did ye go so near to the city to fight? Did ye not know that they would shoot from the wall?

acv@2Samuel:11:21 @ Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall so that he died at Thebez? Why did ye go so near the wall? Then thou shall say, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

acv@2Samuel:12:9 @ Why have thou despised the word of LORD, to do that which is evil in his sight? Thou have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be thy wife, and have slain him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

acv@2Samuel:12:23 @ But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

acv@2Samuel:13:4 @ And he said to him, Why, O son of the king, are thou emaciated this way from day to day? Will thou not tell me? And Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

acv@2Samuel:13:26 @ Then Absalom said, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said to him, Why should he go with thee?

acv@2Samuel:14:13 @ And the woman said, Why then have thou devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as he who is guilty, in that the king does not fetch home again his banished one.

acv@2Samuel:14:31 @ Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, Why have thy servants set my field on fire?

acv@2Samuel:14:32 @ And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to thee, saying, Come here, that I may send thee to the king to say, Why have I come from Geshur? It were better for me to still be there. Now therefore let me see the king's face, and if t

acv@2Samuel:15:19 @ Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why do thou also go with us? Return, and abide with the king, for thou are a foreigner, and also an exile. [Return] to thine own place.

acv@2Samuel:16:9 @ Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.

acv@2Samuel:16:10 @ And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because LORD has said to him, Curse David, who then shall say, Why have thou done so?

acv@2Samuel:16:17 @ And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why did thou not go with thy friend?

acv@2Samuel:18:11 @ And Joab said to the man who told him, and, behold, thou saw it, and why did thou not smite him there to the ground? And I would have given thee ten [pieces of] silver, and a belt.

acv@2Samuel:18:22 @ Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, But come what may, let me, I pray thee, also run after the Cushite. And Joab said, Why will thou run, my son, seeing that thou will have no reward for the news?

acv@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?

acv@2Samuel:19:11 @ And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, [to bring him] to

acv@2Samuel:19:12 @ Ye are my brothers, ye are my bone and my flesh. Why then are ye the last to bring back the king?

acv@2Samuel:19:25 @ And it came to pass, when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why did thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?

acv@2Samuel:19:29 @ And the king said to him, Why do thou speak any more of thy matters? I say, thou and Ziba divide the land.

acv@2Samuel:19:35 @ I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should thy servant be yet a burden to my

acv@2Samuel:19:36 @ Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king, and why should the king recompense it to me with such a reward?

acv@2Samuel:19:41 @ And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen thee away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?

acv@2Samuel:19:42 @ And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us. Why then are ye angry for this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's cost, or has he given us any gift?

acv@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 had first in bringing back our king

acv@2Samuel:20:19 @ I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. Thou seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will thou swallow up the inheritance of LORD?

acv@2Samuel:24:3 @ And Joab said to the king, Now LORD thy God add to the people, however many they may be, a hundredfold, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it, but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?

acv@2Samuel:24:21 @ And Araunah said, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor from thee, to build an altar to LORD that the plague may be halted from the people.

acv@1Kings:1:6 @ And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have thou done so? And he was also a very handsome man. And he was born after Absalom.

acv@1Kings:1:13 @ Go and get thee in to king David, and say to him, Did thou not, my lord, O king, swear to thy handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? Why then does Adonijah reign?

acv@1Kings:1:41 @ And Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?

acv@1Kings:2:22 @ And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why do thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my elder brother, even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of

acv@1Kings:2:43 @ Why then have thou not kept the oath of LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

acv@1Kings:9:8 @ And though this house is so high, yet shall every man who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss. And they shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?

acv@1Kings:11:27 @ And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.

acv@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 feign thou thyself to be another? For I am sent to thee with heavy news.

acv@1Kings:21:5 @ But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is thy spirit so sad that thou eat no bread?

acv@2Kings:1:5 @ And the messengers returned to him, and he said to them, Why is it that ye are returned?

acv@2Kings:4:23 @ And he said, Why will thou go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.

acv@2Kings:5:8 @ And it was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Why have thou torn thy clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Is

acv@2Kings:6:33 @ And while he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him, and he said, Behold, this evil is of LORD. Why should I wait for LORD any longer?

acv@2Kings:7:3 @ Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, Why do we sit here until we die?

acv@2Kings:8:12 @ And Hazael said, Why do thou weep my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou will do to the sons of Israel: their strongholds thou will set on fire, and their young men thou will kill with the sword, and will dash

acv@2Kings:9:11 @ Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to thee? And he said to them, Ye know the man and what his talk was.

acv@2Kings:12:7 @ Then king Joash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other] priests, and said to them, Why do ye not repair the broken parts of the house? Now therefore take no [more] money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the br

acv@2Kings:14:10 @ Thou have indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up. Glory by it, and abide at home, for why should thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou should fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

acv@1Chronicles:17:6 @ In all places wherein I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have ye not built for me a house of cedar?

acv@1Chronicles:21:3 @ And Joab said, LORD make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?

acv@2Chronicles:7:21 @ And this house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?

acv@2Chronicles:24:6 @ And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why have thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of LORD, and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent

acv@2Chronicles:24:20 @ And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest. And he stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why do ye transgress the commandments of LORD, so that ye cannot prosper? Because ye have for

acv@2Chronicles:25:15 @ Therefore the anger of LORD was kindled against Amaziah. And he sent a prophet to him, who said to him, Why have thou sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of thy hand?

acv@2Chronicles:25:16 @ And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, Have we made thee of the king's counsel? Cease. Why should thou be smitten? Then the prophet ceased, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy thee,

acv@2Chronicles:25:19 @ Thou say, Lo, I have smitten Edom. And thy heart lifts thee up to boast. Remain now at home. Why should thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou should fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

acv@2Chronicles:32:4 @ So there was gathered together many people. And they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?

acv@Ezra:4:22 @ And take heed that ye be not slack in this matter. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

acv@Ezra:7:23 @ Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

acv@Nehemiah:2:2 @ And the king said to me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much afraid.

acv@Nehemiah:2:3 @ And I said to the king, Let the king live forever. Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lays waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?

acv@Nehemiah:6:3 @ And I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it, and come down to you?

acv@Nehemiah:13:11 @ Then I contended with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

acv@Nehemiah:13:21 @ Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why do ye lodge around the wall? If ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth they came no more on the Sabbath.

acv@Esther:3:3 @ Then the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, Why do thou transgress the king's commandment?

acv@Esther:4:5 @ Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's chamberlains whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it was.

acv@Job:3:11 @ Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

acv@Job:3:12 @ Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

acv@Job:3:20 @ Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

acv@Job:3:23 @ [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?

acv@Job:7:20 @ If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

acv@Job:7:21 @ And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lay down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

acv@Job:9:29 @ I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

acv@Job:10:2 @ I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.

acv@Job:10:18 @ Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

acv@Job:13:14 @ Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

acv@Job:13:24 @ Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?

acv@Job:15:12 @ Why does thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,

acv@Job:18:3 @ Why are we counted as beasts, [and] have become unclean in your sight?

acv@Job:19:22 @ Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

acv@Job:21:4 @ As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

acv@Job:21:7 @ Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow mighty in power?

acv@Job:24:1 @ Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do those who know him not see his days?

acv@Job:27:12 @ Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?

acv@Job:33:13 @ Why do thou strive against him because he does not give of any of his matters?

acv@Psalms:2:1 @ Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain?

acv@Psalms:10:1 @ Why do thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why do thou hide thyself in times of trouble?

acv@Psalms:10:13 @ Why does the wicked man despise God, and say in his heart, Thou will not require [it]?

acv@Psalms:22:1 @ My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, [and] the words of my groaning?

acv@Psalms:42:5 @ Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And [why] are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance.

acv@Psalms:42:9 @ I will say to God my rock, Why have thou forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

acv@Psalms:42:11 @ Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.

acv@Psalms:43:2 @ For thou are the God of my strength. Why have thou cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

acv@Psalms:43:5 @ Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.

acv@Psalms:44:23 @ Awake, why do thou sleep, O LORD? Arise, cast not off forever.

acv@Psalms:44:24 @ Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

acv@Psalms:49:5 @ Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels encompasses me about?

acv@Psalms:52:1 @ Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God [is] continual.

acv@Psalms:68:16 @ Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, at the mountain which God has desired for his abode? Yea, LORD will dwell [in it] forever.

acv@Psalms:74:1 @ O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

acv@Psalms:74:11 @ Why do thou draw back thy hand, even thy right hand? Remove [it] from the midst of thy bosom.

acv@Psalms:79:10 @ Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed be known among the nations in our sight.

acv@Psalms:80:12 @ Why have thou broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

acv@Psalms:88:14 @ LORD, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me?

acv@Psalms:115:2 @ Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?

acv@Proverbs:5:20 @ For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

acv@Proverbs:17:16 @ Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

acv@Proverbs:22:27 @ If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

acv@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @ Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it will happen even to me, and why then was I more wise? Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.

acv@Ecclesiastes:5:6 @ Do not allow thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say thou before the [heavenly] agent, that is was an error. Why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

acv@Ecclesiastes:7:16 @ Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise. Why should thou destroy thyself?

acv@Ecclesiastes:7:17 @ Do not much wrong, nor be thou a fool. Why should thou die before thy time?

acv@Songs:1:7 @ Tell me, O thou whom my soul loves, where thou feed [thy flock], where thou make [it] to rest at noon. For why should I be as she who is veiled beside the flocks of thy companions?

acv@Songs:6:13 @ Return, return, O Shulammite, return, return, that we may look upon thee. Why will ye look upon the Shulammite, as upon the dance of two armies?

acv@Isaiah:1:5 @ Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

acv@Isaiah:5:4 @ What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes?

acv@Isaiah:40:27 @ Why do thou say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from LORD. And the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?

acv@Isaiah:50:2 @ Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness.

acv@Isaiah:55:2 @ Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

acv@Isaiah:58:3 @ Why have we fasted, [they say], and thou see not? We have afflicted our soul, and thou take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact from all your laborers.

acv@Isaiah:63:2 @ Why are thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him who treads in the wine vat?

acv@Isaiah:63:17 @ O LORD, why do thou make us to err from thy ways, and harden our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

acv@Jeremiah:2:14 @ Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey?

acv@Jeremiah:2:29 @ Why will ye contend with me? Ye have all transgressed against me, says LORD.

acv@Jeremiah:2:31 @ O generation, see ye the word of LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, We have broken loose. We will come no more to thee?

acv@Jeremiah:2:36 @ Why do thou gad about so much to change thy way? Thou shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou were ashamed of Assyria.

acv@Jeremiah:5:19 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why has LORD our God done all these things to us? Then thou shall say to them, Just as ye have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so ye shall serve strangers in a land t

acv@Jeremiah:8:5 @ Why then has this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firm deceit. They refuse to return.

acv@Jeremiah:8:14 @ Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against LORD.

acv@Jeremiah:8:19 @ Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?

acv@Jeremiah:8:22 @ Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

acv@Jeremiah:9:12 @ Who is the wise man, who may understand this, and he to whom the mouth of LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?

acv@Jeremiah:12:1 @ Thou are righteous, O LORD, when I contend with thee. Yet I would reason the case with thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those at ease who deal very treacherously?

acv@Jeremiah:13:22 @ And if thou say in thy heart, Why have these things come upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity thy skirts are uncovered, and thy heels suffer violence.

acv@Jeremiah:14:8 @ O thou hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to tarry for a night?

acv@Jeremiah:14:9 @ Why should thou be as a man frightened, as a mighty man who cannot save? Yet thou, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name. Do not leave us.

acv@Jeremiah:14:19 @ Have thou utterly rejected Judah? Has thy soul loathed Zion? Why have thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

acv@Jeremiah:15:18 @ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will thou indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

acv@Jeremiah:16:10 @ And it shall come to pass, when thou shall show this people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Why has LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed aga

acv@Jeremiah:20:18 @ Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

acv@Jeremiah:22:8 @ And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say each man to his neighbor, Why has LORD done thus to this great city?

acv@Jeremiah:22:28 @ Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which none delights? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?

acv@Jeremiah:26:9 @ Why have thou prophesied in the name of LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of LORD.

acv@Jeremiah:27:13 @ Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as LORD has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

acv@Jeremiah:27:17 @ Hearken not to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

acv@Jeremiah:29:27 @ Now therefore, why have thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,

acv@Jeremiah:30:6 @ Ask ye now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

acv@Jeremiah:30:15 @ Why do thou cry for thy hurt? Thy pain is incurable, for the greatness of thine iniquity. Because thy sins were increased, I have done these things to thee.

acv@Jeremiah:32:3 @ For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do thou prophesy, and say, Thus says LORD: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.

acv@Jeremiah:36:29 @ And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah thou shall say, Thus says LORD: Thou have burned this roll, saying, Why have thou written in it, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to ceas

acv@Jeremiah:40:15 @ Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it. Why should he take thy life, that all the Jews who are gat

acv@Jeremiah:44:7 @ Therefore now thus says LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do ye commit [this] great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none rema

acv@Jeremiah:46:5 @ Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have turned backward. And their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and do not look back. Terror is on every side, says LORD.

acv@Jeremiah:46:15 @ Why are thy strong ones swept away? They stood not, because LORD drove them.

acv@Jeremiah:49:1 @ Concerning the sons of Ammon. Thus says LORD: Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?

acv@Jeremiah:49:4 @ Why do thou glory in the valleys, thy flowing valley? O backsliding daughter, who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me?

acv@Lamentations:3:39 @ Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

acv@Lamentations:5:20 @ Why do thou forget us forever, [and] forsake us so long time?

acv@Ezekiel:18:19 @ Yet say ye, Why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

acv@Ezekiel:18:31 @ Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit. For why will ye die, O house of Israel?

acv@Ezekiel:21:7 @ And it shall be, when they say to thee, Why do thou sigh? That thou shall say, Because of the news. For it comes, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak

acv@Ezekiel:33:11 @ Say to them, As I live, says lord LORD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but that the wicked man turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

acv@Daniel:1:10 @ And the ruler of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths that are of your own age? So ye would endanger my head

acv@Daniel:2:15 @ He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

acv@Daniel:10:20 @ Then he said, Do thou know why I have come to thee? And now I will return to fight with the ruler of Persia. And when I go forth, lo, the ruler of Greece shall come.

acv@Joel:2:17 @ Let the priests, the ministers of LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and do not give thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among t

acv@Amos:5:18 @ Woe to you who desire the day of LORD! Why would ye have the day of LORD? It is darkness, and not light.

acv@Micah:4:9 @ Now why do thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee. Has thy counselor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?

acv@Micah:6:6 @ Why shall I come before LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?

acv@Habakkuk:1:3 @ Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.

acv@Habakkuk:1:13 @ Thou who are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on perverseness, why do thou look upon those who deal treacherously, and hold thy peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

acv@Haggai:1:9 @ Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.

acv@Malachi:2:10 @ Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

acv@Malachi:2:14 @ Yet ye say, Why? Because LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou have dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

acv@Malachi:2:15 @ And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.