197 questions Israel was asked across 22 books
“The officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore ?”
“Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today?”
“And what are we, that ye murmur against us?”
“And what are we?”
“Why chide ye with me?”
“You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself?”
“Who is on the LORD'S side?”
“Now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD?”
“Must we fetch you water out of this rock?”
“How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?”
“What nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?”
“What nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?”
“Ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?”
“Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?”
“Hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?”
“How can I dispossess them?”
“But you may say to yourselves, ‘These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?’”
“Who can stand up against the Anakites?”
“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul?”
“How did these nations serve their gods?”
“Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?”
“Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?”
“Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?”
“Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise?”
“How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?”
“Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?”
“Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge?”
“Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings?”
“What mean ye by these stones?”
“When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?”
“How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?”
“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve?”
“Why have ye done this?”
“Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?”
“Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?”
“Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!?”
“This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights?”
“See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?”
“Whose ox have I taken?”
“Is it not wheat harvest to day?”
“Why are ye come out to set your battle in array?”
“What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel?”
“How long halt ye between two opinions?”
“Is not the LORD your God with you?”
“Who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?”
“But are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?”
“Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?”
“Who is this King of glory?”
“What man is he that feareth the LORD?”
“Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?”
“For who, say they, doth hear?”
“He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?”
“Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD?”
“Why should ye be stricken any more?”
“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?”
“What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?”
“What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?”
“What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation?”
“Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?”
“When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?”
“He made me not?”
“Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?”
“Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?”
“With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?”
“To whom then will ye liken God?”
“Have ye not known?”
“To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal?”
“Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these?”
“Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?”
“Hast thou not known?”
“Who is blind, but my servant?”
“Who among you will give ear to this?”
“Who gave Jacob for a spoil , and Israel to the robbers?”
“Shall ye not know it?”
“Have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it?”
“What makest thou?”
“What begettest thou?”
“Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?”
“To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?”
“Which among them hath declared these things?”
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?”
“Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away?”
“When I came, was there no man?”
“Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light?”
“who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,?”
“And hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy?”
“Who hath believed our report?”
“Do ye spend money for that which is not bread?”
“Of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart?”
“Is it such a fast that I have chosen?”
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen?”
“Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?”
“Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock?”
“Where is the house that ye build unto me?”
“Who hath heard such a thing?”
“Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?”
“What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?”
“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?”
“Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?”
“Is Israel a servant?”
“Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?”
“Now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor?”
“How then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?”
“I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim?”
“Will ye plead with me?”
“Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?”
“Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?”
“If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again?”
“Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?”
“Will he reserve his anger for ever?”
“Shall I not visit for these things?”
“Fear ye not me?”
“And what will ye do in the end thereof?”
“To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country?”
“Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods?”
“Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?”
“Do they provoke me to anger?”
“Shall they fall, and not arise?”
“Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?”
“We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us?”
“Who is the wise man, that may understand this?”
“What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee?”
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?”
“O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter?”
“Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field?”
“Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?”
“How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?”
“Is not my word like as a fire?”
“Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?”
“Why criest thou for thine affliction?”
“For who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me?”
“How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter?”
“Is it meet for any work?”
“Shall it prosper?”
“Shall he prosper?”
“The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?”
“Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?”
“Is not my way equal?”
“O house of Israel, are not my ways equal?”
“For why will ye die, O house of Israel?”
“For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!?”
“What is the high place whereunto ye go?”
“Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers?”
“And shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel?”
“Is the way of the Lord not just? I will judge each of you according to your own ways.”
“And shall ye possess the land?”
“Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures?”
“Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?”
“What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?”
“What then should a king do to us?”
“How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?”
“He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper. Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?”
“Where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities?”
“Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting?”
“Where is their God?”
“Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel?”
“Can two walk together, except they be agreed?”
“Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey?”
“Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him?”
“Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?”
“The lion hath roared, who will not fear?”
“To what end is it for you?”
“Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light?”
“Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?”
“Be they better than these kingdoms?”
“Shall horses run upon the rock?”
“Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein?”
“Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel?”
“What is the transgression of Jacob?”
“We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors?”
“O my people, what have I done unto thee?”
“What doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”
“And what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”
“Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?”
“Where is the LORD thy God?”
“Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage?”
“Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger?”
“Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?”
“Your fathers, where are they?”
“If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes?”
“If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it?”
“Wherein hast thou loved us?”
“Was not Esau Jacob's brother?”
“Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?”
“Hath not one God created us?”
“Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?”
“Did not he make one?”
“Wherefore one?”
“Why? Because the LORD is the witness between you and the wife of your youth?”
“Who may abide the day of his coming?”
“And who shall stand when he appeareth?”
“Have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?”
“What house will ye build me? Or what is the place of my rest?”
“Hath not my hand made all these things?”