Quotes about Inquiry
and he failed to inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
— 1 Chronicles 10:14
So David inquired of God, “Should I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” “Go,” replied the LORD, “for I will deliver them into your hand.”
— 1 Chronicles 14:10
So David again inquired of God, who answered him, “Do not march up after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.
— 1 Chronicles 14:14
but David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
— 1 Chronicles 21:30
But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for the word of the LORD.”
— 2 Chronicles 18:4
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites about the heaps,
— 2 Chronicles 31:9
So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
— Ezra 5:9
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
— Nehemiah 7:64
“What is it, Queen Esther?” the king inquired. “What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be given to you.”
— Esther 5:3
The king inquired, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this act?” “Nothing has been done for him,” replied the king’s attendants.
— Esther 6:3
Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”
— Esther 7:5
If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
— Job 7:20