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akjv@Exodus:18:14 @ And when Moses'father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that you do to the people? why sit you yourself alone, and all the people stand by you from morning to even?

akjv@Exodus:20:11 @ For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: why the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

akjv@Exodus:31:16 @ Why the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

akjv@Exodus:32:11 @ And Moses sought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why does your wrath wax hot against your people, which you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?

akjv@Exodus:32:12 @ Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

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

akjv@Leviticus:13:25 @ Then the priest shall look on it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: why the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.

akjv@Leviticus:25:18 @ Why you shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

akjv@Numbers:9:7 @ And those men said to him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

akjv@Numbers:11:11 @ And Moses said to the LORD, Why have you afflicted your servant? and why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

akjv@Numbers:11:20 @ But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you: because that you have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

akjv@Numbers:12:8 @ With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

akjv@Numbers:14:3 @ And why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

akjv@Numbers:14:41 @ And Moses said, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

akjv@Numbers:16:3 @ And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: why then lift you up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?

akjv@Numbers:20:4 @ And why have you brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

akjv@Numbers:20:5 @ And why have you 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.

akjv@Numbers:20:21 @ Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: why Israel turned away from him.

akjv@Numbers:21:5 @ And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread.

akjv@Numbers:21:14 @ Why it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,

akjv@Numbers:21:27 @ Why they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:

akjv@Numbers:22:32 @ And the angel of the LORD said to him, Why have you smitten your ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me:

akjv@Numbers:22:37 @ And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to you to call you? why came you not to me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?

akjv@Numbers:25:12 @ Why say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace:

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

akjv@Numbers:32:5 @ Why, said they, if we have found grace in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.

akjv@Numbers:32:7 @ And why discourage you the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?

akjv@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.

akjv@Deuteronomy:7:12 @ Why it shall come to pass, if you listen to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD your God shall keep to you the covenant and the mercy which he swore to your fathers:

akjv@Deuteronomy:10:9 @ Why Levi has no part nor inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD your God promised him.

akjv@Deuteronomy:19:7 @ Why I command you, saying, You shall separate three cities for you.

akjv@Deuteronomy:29:24 @ Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? what means the heat of this great anger?

akjv@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.

akjv@Joshua:5:9 @ And the LORD said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Why the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day.

akjv@Joshua:7:5 @ And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: why the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

akjv@Joshua:7:7 @ And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, why have you at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelled on the other side Jordan!

akjv@Joshua:7:10 @ And the LORD said to Joshua, Get you up; why lie you thus on your face?

akjv@Joshua:7:25 @ And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? the LORD shall trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

akjv@Joshua:7:26 @ And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Why the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, to this day.

akjv@Joshua:9:11 @ Why our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We are your servants: therefore now make you a league with us.

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

akjv@Joshua:10:3 @ Why Adonizedec king of Jerusalem, sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,

akjv@Joshua:17:14 @ And the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, for as much as the LORD has blessed me till now?

akjv@Judges:2:2 @ And you shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; you shall throw down their altars: but you have not obeyed my voice: why have you done this?

akjv@Judges:2:3 @ Why I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

akjv@Judges:5:16 @ Why stayed you among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

akjv@Judges:5:17 @ Gilead stayed beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and stayed in his breaches.

akjv@Judges:5:28 @ The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

akjv@Judges:6:13 @ And Gideon said to 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 has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

akjv@Judges:8:1 @ And the men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you served us thus, that you called us not, when you went to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.

akjv@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?

akjv@Judges:10:13 @ Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: why I will deliver you no more.

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

akjv@Judges:11:26 @ While Israel dwelled 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 you not recover them within that time?

akjv@Judges:11:27 @ Why I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

akjv@Judges:12:1 @ And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said to Jephthah, Why passed you over to fight against the children of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? we will burn your house on you with fire.

akjv@Judges:12:3 @ And when I saw that you delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: why then are you come up to me this day, to fight against me?

akjv@Judges:13:18 @ And the angel of the LORD said to him, Why ask you thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

akjv@Judges:15:10 @ And the men of Judah said, Why are you come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he has done to us.

akjv@Judges:15:19 @ But God split an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water out of there; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: why he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

akjv@Judges:18:12 @ And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: why they called that place Mahanehdan to this day: behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim.

akjv@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?

akjv@Ruth:1:7 @ Why she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

akjv@Ruth:1:11 @ And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will you go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

akjv@Ruth:1:21 @ I went out full and the LORD has brought me home again empty: why then call you me Naomi, seeing the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

akjv@Ruth:2:10 @ Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, Why have I found grace in your eyes, that you should take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?

akjv@1Samuel:1:8 @ Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why eat you not? and why is your heart grieved? am not I better to you than ten sons?

akjv@1Samuel:1:20 @ Why it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bore a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.

akjv@1Samuel:2:17 @ Why the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.

akjv@1Samuel:2:23 @ And he said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.

akjv@1Samuel:2:29 @ Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the most chief of all the offerings of Israel my people?

akjv@1Samuel:2:30 @ Why the LORD God of Israel said, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD said, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

akjv@1Samuel:4:3 @ And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh to us, that, when it comes among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.

akjv@1Samuel:6:3 @ And they said, If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.

akjv@1Samuel:6:5 @ Why you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

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

akjv@1Samuel:9:21 @ And Saul answered and said, Am not I 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 you so to me?

akjv@1Samuel:14:27 @ But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: why he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

akjv@1Samuel:15:19 @ Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but did fly on the spoil, and did evil in the sight of the LORD?

akjv@1Samuel:16:19 @ Why Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, which is with the sheep.

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

akjv@1Samuel:17:28 @ And Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab' anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why came you down here? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you are come down that you might see the battle.

akjv@1Samuel:18:15 @ Why when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.

akjv@1Samuel:18:21 @ And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Why Saul said to David, You shall this day be my son in law in the one of the two.

akjv@1Samuel:18:27 @ Why David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king' son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

akjv@1Samuel:19:5 @ For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel: you saw it, and did rejoice: why then will you sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

akjv@1Samuel:19:17 @ And Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me so, and sent away my enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I kill you?

akjv@1Samuel:19:24 @ And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Why they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

akjv@1Samuel:20:2 @ And he said to him, God forbid; you shall not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will show it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.

akjv@1Samuel:20:8 @ Therefore you shall deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?

akjv@1Samuel:20:27 @ And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David' place was empty: and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why comes not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?

akjv@1Samuel:20:31 @ For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the ground, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Why now send and fetch him to me, for he shall surely die.

akjv@1Samuel:20:32 @ And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why shall he be slain? what has he done?

akjv@1Samuel:21:1 @ Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said to him, Why are you alone, and no man with you?

akjv@1Samuel:21:14 @ Then said Achish to his servants, See, you see the man is mad: why then have you brought him to me?

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

akjv@1Samuel:23:25 @ Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David; why he came down into a rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

akjv@1Samuel:23:28 @ Why Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Selahammahlekoth.

akjv@1Samuel:24:9 @ And David said to Saul, Why hear you men' words, saying, Behold, David seeks your hurt?

akjv@1Samuel:24:19 @ For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? why the LORD reward you good for that you have done to me this day.

akjv@1Samuel:25:8 @ Ask your young men, and they will show you. Why let the young men find favor in your eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray you, whatever comes to your hand to your servants, and to your son David.

akjv@1Samuel:25:36 @ And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal' heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: why she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

akjv@1Samuel:26:15 @ And David said to Abner, Are not you a valiant man? and who is like to you in Israel? why then have you not kept your lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king your lord.

akjv@1Samuel:26:18 @ And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

akjv@1Samuel:27:5 @ And David said to Achish, If I have now found grace in your eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?

akjv@1Samuel:27:6 @ Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day.

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

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

akjv@1Samuel:28:15 @ And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.

akjv@1Samuel:28:16 @ Then said Samuel, Why then do you ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from you, and is become your enemy?

akjv@1Samuel:29:7 @ Why now return, and go in peace, that you displease not the lords of the Philistines.

akjv@1Samuel:29:10 @ Why now rise up early in the morning with your master' servants that are come with you: and as soon as you be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.

akjv@2Samuel:2:16 @ And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow' side; so they fell down together: why that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

akjv@2Samuel:2:22 @ And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn you aside from following me: why should I smite you to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?

akjv@2Samuel:2:23 @ However, he refused to turn aside: why Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

akjv@2Samuel:3:7 @ And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Why have you gone in to my father' concubine?

akjv@2Samuel:3:24 @ Then Joab came to the king, and said, What have you done? behold, Abner came to you; why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?

akjv@2Samuel:5:8 @ And David said on that day, Whoever gets up to the gutter, and smites the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind that are hated of David' soul, he shall be chief and captain. Why they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

akjv@2Samuel:7:7 @ In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build you not me an house of cedar?

akjv@2Samuel:7:22 @ Why you are great, O LORD God: for there is none like you, neither is there any God beside you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

akjv@2Samuel:10:4 @ Why Hanun took David' servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

akjv@2Samuel:11:10 @ And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down to his house, David said to Uriah, Came you not from your journey? why then did you not go down to your house?

akjv@2Samuel:11:20 @ And if so be that the king' wrath arise, and he say to you, Why approached you so near to the city when you did fight? knew you not that they would shoot from the wall?

akjv@2Samuel:11:21 @ Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went you near the wall? then say you, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

akjv@2Samuel:12:9 @ Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? you have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

akjv@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 shall not return to me.

akjv@2Samuel:13:4 @ And he said to him, Why are you, being the king' son, lean from day to day? will you not tell me? And Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom' sister.

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

akjv@2Samuel:14:13 @ And the woman said, Why then have you thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king does speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king does not fetch home again his banished.

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

akjv@2Samuel:14:32 @ And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king' face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.

akjv@2Samuel:15:19 @ Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Why go you also with us? return to your place, and abide with the king: for you are a stranger, and also an exile.

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

akjv@2Samuel:16:10 @ And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD has said to him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Why have you done so?

akjv@2Samuel:16:17 @ And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness to your friend? why went you not with your friend?

akjv@2Samuel:18:11 @ And Joab said to the man that told him, And, behold, you saw him, and why did you not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given you ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.

akjv@2Samuel:18:22 @ Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray you, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Why will you run, my son, seeing that you have no tidings ready?

akjv@2Samuel:19:10 @ And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak you not a word of bringing the king back?

akjv@2Samuel:19:11 @ And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.

akjv@2Samuel:19:12 @ You are my brothers, you are my bones and my flesh: why then are you the last to bring back the king?

akjv@2Samuel:19:25 @ And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why went not you with me, Mephibosheth?

akjv@2Samuel:19:29 @ And the king said to him, Why speak you any more of your matters? I have said, You and Ziba divide the land.

akjv@2Samuel:19:35 @ I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can your 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 your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

akjv@2Samuel:19:36 @ Your servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

akjv@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 you away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David' men with him, over Jordan?

akjv@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 be you angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king' cost? or has he given us any gift?

akjv@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 you: why then did you 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.

akjv@2Samuel:20:19 @ I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why will you swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

akjv@2Samuel:21:3 @ Why David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and with which shall I make the atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?

akjv@2Samuel:24:3 @ And Joab said to the king, Now the LORD your God add to the people, how many soever they be, an hundred times, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?

akjv@2Samuel:24:21 @ And Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

akjv@1Kings:1:2 @ Why his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.

akjv@1Kings:1:6 @ And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bore him after Absalom.

akjv@1Kings:1:11 @ Why Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith does reign, and David our lord knows it not?

akjv@1Kings:1:13 @ Go and get you in to king David, and say to him, Did not you, my lord, O king, swear to your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then does Adonijah reign?

akjv@1Kings:1:41 @ And Adonijah and all the guests that 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?

akjv@1Kings:2:22 @ And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, And why do you 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 Zeruiah.

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

akjv@1Kings:9:8 @ And at this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?

akjv@1Kings:11:11 @ Why the LORD said to Solomon, For as much as this is done of you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely rend the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.

akjv@1Kings:12:15 @ Why the king listened not to the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

akjv@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, you wife of Jeroboam; why feign you yourself to be another? for I am sent to you with heavy tidings.

akjv@1Kings:16:16 @ And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, and has also slain the king: why all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.

akjv@1Kings:20:9 @ Why he said to the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that you did send for to your servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.

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

akjv@1Kings:22:34 @ And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: why he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

akjv@2Kings:1:5 @ And when the messengers turned back to him, he said to them, Why are you now turned back?

akjv@2Kings:4:23 @ And he said, Why will you go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.

akjv@2Kings:4:31 @ And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Why he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.

akjv@2Kings:5:7 @ And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man does send to me to recover a man of his leprosy? why consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.

akjv@2Kings:5:8 @ And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Why have you rent your clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.

akjv@2Kings:7:3 @ And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

akjv@2Kings:7:7 @ Why they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

akjv@2Kings:8:12 @ And Hazael said, Why weeps my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: their strong holds will you set on fire, and their young men will you slay with the sword, and will dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

akjv@2Kings:9:11 @ Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, Is all well? why came this mad fellow to you? And he said to them, You know the man, and his communication.

akjv@2Kings:9:36 @ Why they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:

akjv@2Kings:12:7 @ Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why repair you not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

akjv@2Kings:14:10 @ You have indeed smitten Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why should you meddle to your hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?

akjv@2Kings:17:26 @ Why they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which you have removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he has sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

akjv@2Kings:19:4 @ It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD your God has heard: why lift up your prayer for the remnant that are left.

akjv@1Chronicles:13:11 @ And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach on Uzza: why that place is called Perezuzza to this day.

akjv@1Chronicles:17:6 @ Wherever I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have you not built me an house of cedars?

akjv@1Chronicles:19:4 @ Why Hanun took David' servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.

akjv@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' servants? why then does my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

akjv@1Chronicles:21:4 @ Nevertheless the king' word prevailed against Joab. Why Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

akjv@1Chronicles:29:10 @ Why David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be you, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.

akjv@2Chronicles:5:3 @ Why all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.

akjv@2Chronicles:7:21 @ And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passes by it; so that he shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?

akjv@2Chronicles:19:7 @ Why now let the fear of the LORD be on you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

akjv@2Chronicles:22:4 @ Why he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.

akjv@2Chronicles:24:6 @ And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why have you not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

akjv@2Chronicles:24:20 @ And the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said to them, Thus said God, Why transgress you the commandments of the LORD, that you cannot prosper? because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.

akjv@2Chronicles:25:10 @ Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: why their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.

akjv@2Chronicles:25:15 @ Why the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, which said to him, Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of your hand?

akjv@2Chronicles:25:16 @ And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to him, Are you made of the king' counsel? forbear; why should you be smitten? Then the prophet declined, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.

akjv@2Chronicles:25:19 @ You say, See, you have smitten the Edomites; and your heart lifts you up to boast: abide now at home; why should you meddle to your hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?

akjv@2Chronicles:28:5 @ Why the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

akjv@2Chronicles:29:8 @ Why the wrath of the LORD was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

akjv@2Chronicles:29:34 @ But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: why their brothers the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

akjv@2Chronicles:32:4 @ So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the middle of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?

akjv@2Chronicles:33:11 @ Why the LORD brought on them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

akjv@Ezra:4:22 @ Take heed now that you fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

akjv@Ezra:7:23 @ Whatever 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?

akjv@Nehemiah:2:2 @ Why the king said to me, Why is your countenance sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,

akjv@Nehemiah:2:3 @ And said to the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers'sepulchers, lies waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

akjv@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, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

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

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

akjv@Esther:3:3 @ Then the king' servants, which were in the king' gate, said to Mordecai, Why transgress you the king' commandment?

akjv@Esther:3:6 @ And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had showed him the people of Mordecai: why Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

akjv@Esther:4:5 @ Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king' chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend on her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.

akjv@Esther:9:26 @ Why they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come to them,