Faith & Obedience

“Is any thing too hard for the LORD?”

“Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

“Have not I commanded thee?”

“Where did the men go?”

“What mean ye by these stones?”

“When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?”

“Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?”

“What saith my lord unto his servant?”

“Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us?”

“what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?”

“And what wilt thou do unto thy great name?”

“Wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?”

“What have you done?”

“Why hast thou troubled us?”

“And how shall we make a league with you?”

“Who are you?”

“When ye dwell among us?”

“Put your feet on the necks of these kings?”

“What wouldest thou?”

“Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?”

“How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?”

“What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?”

“Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD?”

“In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?”

“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve?”

“Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?”

“What wilt thou?”

“Why have ye done this?”

“I have a message from God for you?”

“Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?”

“Certainly I will go with you. But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours?”

“Is not the LORD gone out before thee?”

“Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here?”

“Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?”

“Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks?”

“And why did Dan remain in ships?”

“Why is his chariot so long in coming?”

“Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us?”

“Have not I sent thee?”

“Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel?”

“Who hath done this thing?”

“Will ye plead for Baal?”

“There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there?”

“Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites?”

“What have I done now in comparison of you?”

“Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?”

“Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?”

“What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor?”

“Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you?”

“Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?”

“Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?”

“Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?”

“Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him?”

“Aren’t they coming down from the mountains?”

“Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?”

“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!?”

“What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon?”

“Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house?”

“What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?”

“Now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?”

“Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess?”

“Now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab?”

“Passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee?”

“Wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?”

“Art thou an Ephraimite?”

“Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman?”

“How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?”

“What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?”

“Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret ?”

“Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?”

“Have ye called us to take that we have?”

“I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?”

“What is sweeter than honey?”

“Is not her younger sister fairer than she?”

“Who hath done this?”

“Why are ye come up against us?”

“Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us?”

“And now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?”

“You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied?”

“All this time you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied?”

“How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me?”

“The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you—I took them. What shall I do?”

“Whence comest thou?”

“Who brought thee hither?”

“What say ye?”

“Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image?”

“What do ye?”

“Is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?”

“What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?”

“And what have I more?”

“Whither goest thou?”

“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?”

“How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”

“Hannah, why weepest thou?”

“How long wilt thou be drunken?”

“Why do ye such things?”

“But if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him?”

“Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?”

“And honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?”

“Did you call me?”

“What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee?”

“Hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines?”

“What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?”

“What meaneth the noise of this tumult?”

“What is there done, my son?”

“What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?”

“What shall we do to the ark of the LORD?”

“What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him?”

“Then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts?”

“Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God?”

“This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights?”

“Behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man?”

“Is the seer here?”

“Tell me where is the house of the seer?”

“Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel?”

“What is this that is come unto the son of Kish?”

“Who is their father?”

“Whither went ye?”

“See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?”

“How shall this man save us?”

“What aileth the people that they weep?”

“Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us?”

“Whose ox have I taken?”

“Is it not wheat harvest to day?”

“What hast thou done?”

“How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found?”

“Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel?”

“What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”

“When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?”

“Then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?”

“Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD?”

“How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?”

“How can I go?”

“Comest thou peaceably?”

“Are here all thy children?”

“Why are ye come out to set your battle in array?”

“Have ye seen this man that is come up?”

“What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel?”

“Why camest thou down hither?”

“What have I now done?”

“Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?”

“When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth?”

“Whose son art thou, thou young man?”

“And what can he have more but the kingdom?”

“Who am I? And what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?”

“Wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?”

“Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped?”

“Where are Samuel and David?”

“Is Saul also among the prophets?”

“What have I done?”

“And why should my father hide this thing from me?”

“For why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?”

“Who shall tell me?”

“Cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?”

“Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?”

“Shall he be slain?”

“Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?”

“Is not this David the king of the land?”

“Wherefore then have ye brought him to me?”

“Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?”

“Hear now, people of Benjamin; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards?”

“Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”

“Who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?”

“Did I then begin to enquire of God for him?”

“Shall I go and smite these Philistines?”

“Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand?”

“Hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?”

“After whom is the king of Israel come out?”

“If a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away?”

“Who is David?”

“Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?”

“For who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?”

“Answerest thou not, Abner?”

“Art not thou a valiant man?”

“Is this thy voice, my son David?”

“Doth my lord thus pursue after his servant?”

“One of these days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul. Is there anything better for me to do than escape?”

“For why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?”

“Wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?”

“Whom shall I bring up unto thee?”

“Why hast thou deceived me?”

“For what sawest thou?”

“What form is he of?”

“Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up?”

“Then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?”

“What do these Hebrews here?”

“For wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master?”

“Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?”

“What have I done?”

“Shall I pursue after this troop?”

“To whom belongest thou?”

“Who will hearken unto you in this matter?”

“From whence comest thou?”

“How went the matter?”

“How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?”

“Who art thou?”

“Whence art thou?”

“How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?”

“Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?”

“Art thou Asahel?”

“Wherefore should I smite thee to the ground?”

“Shall the sword devour for ever?”

“Hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?”

“Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?”

“Whose is the land?”

“What hast thou done?”

“Don’t you realize that Abner son of Ner came to deceive you?”

“Died Abner as a fool dieth?”

“Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?”

“How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed?”

“Shall I go up to the Philistines?”

“Shall I go up against the Philistines?”

“How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?”

“How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today?”

“Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?”

“Why build ye not me an house of cedar?”

“Who am I, O Lord GOD?”

“What one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?”

“Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?”

“Art thou Ziba?”

“Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him?”

“Where is he?”

“What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?”

“Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee?”

“Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

“Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey?”

“Shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife?”

“Approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight?”

“Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth?”

“Hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight?”

“How will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?”

“What thing is this that thou hast done?”

“Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?”

“Now he is dead, wherefore should I fast?”

“Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day?”

“I, whither shall I cause my shame to go?”

“Why should he go with thee?”

“Why have you planned such a thing against God’s people?”

“What aileth thee?”

“Then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God?”

“Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this?”

“Have thy servants set my field on fire?”

“I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur?”

“Of what city art thou?”

“Goest thou also with us?”

“Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us?”

“Art not thou a seer?”

“Hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests?”

“What meanest thou by these?”

“Where is thy master's son?”

“Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king?”

“What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah?”

“Is this thy kindness to thy friend?”

“Give your counsel. What shall we do?”

“Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”

“Behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground?”

“Wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?”

“Is the young man Absalom safe?”

“Is the young man Absalom safe?”

“The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies… but Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead. Why then do you say nothing about bringing the king back?”

“Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house?”

“Wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?”

“Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh?”

“What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me?”

“Wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?”

“Why speakest thou any more of thy matters?”

“How long have I to live , that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?”

“And can I discern between good and evil?”

“And why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?”

“Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan?”

“Wherefore then be ye angry for this matter?”

“Why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?”

“Art thou in health, my brother?”

“Art thou Joab?”

“Why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?”

“What shall I do for you?”

“What do you want me to do for you?”

“Is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?”

“But why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?”

“Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land?”

“But these sheep, what have they done?”

“Is my lord the king come to his servant?”

“Why hast thou done so?”

“Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?”

“Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?”

“What wouldest thou?”

“My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?”

“Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”

“Is this noise of the city being in an uproar?”

“Do you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me?”

“Comest thou peaceably?”

“Why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah?”

“Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die?”

“Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?”

“For who is able to judge this thy so great a people?”

“But when I looked at him closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t the son I had borne?”

“I have received the message you sent me and will do all you want in providing the cedar and juniper logs?”

“Will God indeed dwell on the earth?”

“Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?”

“What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?”

“What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother?”

“Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you?”

“What hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country?”

“How do ye advise that I may answer this people?”

“What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?”

“What portion have we in David?”

“What way went he?”

“Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah?”

“Ahijah, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill, and you are to give her such and such an answer. When she arrives, she will pretend to be someone else?”