49 questions Israel asked across 14 books
“Dealest thou thus with thy servants?”
“Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?”
“Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?”
“What is it?”
“Is the LORD among us, or not?”
“Who shall give us flesh to eat?”
“Wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey?”
“Shall we be consumed with dying?”
“Why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?”
“Whither shall we go up?”
“Therefore why should we die?”
“Who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?”
“How can I dispossess them?”
“Who can stand up against the Anakites?”
“How did these nations serve their gods?”
“Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?”
“Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?”
“Tell us, how was this wickedness?”
“What wickedness is this that is done among you?”
“Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin?”
“Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?”
“Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?”
“O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?”
“Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD?”
“How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”
“What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD?”
“Who is their father?”
“What portion have we in David?”
“Have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?”
“Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock?”
“Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD?”
“Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?”
“Will he reserve his anger for ever?”
“If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?”
“What then should a king do to us?”
“We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors?”
“Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God?”
“Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil?”
“Why does he not?”
“Wherein have we wearied him?”
“Or, Where is the God of judgment?”
“Wherein shall we return?”
“Will a man rob God?”
“Wherein have we robbed thee?”
“What have we spoken so much against thee?”
“And what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?”
“Now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it?”
“Who made thee a ruler and a judge?”