Challenge

“Hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”

“What is this that thou hast done?”

“Why art thou wroth?”

“What hast thou done?”

“What is this that thou hast done unto me?”

“Did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?”

“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

“Where are the men which came in to thee this night?”

“Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?”

“Said he not unto me, She is my sister?”

“What hast thou done unto us?”

“Come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?”

“What is this thou hast done unto me?”

“Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?”

“Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband?”

“What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?”

“And didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?”

“Now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?”

“What is my trespass?”

“Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff?”

“And what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?”

“Is it that thou dost ask after my name?”

“What needeth it?”

“Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?”

“Shalt thou indeed reign over us?”

“Why do ye look one upon another?”

“And ye would not hear?”

“Dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?”

“The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive?”

“Have ye rewarded evil for good?”

“Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth?”

“Saith my lord these words?”

“How then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?”

“Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?”

“Smitest thou thy fellow?”

“Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?”

“Where is he?”

“Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go?”

“Do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works?”

“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 ?”

“Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me?”

“How long shall this man be a snare unto us?”

“Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?”

“Criest thou unto me?”

“And what are we?”

“Why chide ye with me?”

“Is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

“Is the LORD among us, or not?”

“What is this thing that thou doest to the people?”

“LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?”

“What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?”

“Who is on the LORD'S side?”

“Have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?”

“Is the LORD'S hand waxed short?”

“Enviest thou for my sake?”

“Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses?”

“Wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

“Now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD?”

“Wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?”

“Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?”

“And seek ye the priesthood also?”

“Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?”

“What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?”

“Hast thou smitten thine ass these three times?”

“Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee?”

“What hast thou done unto me?”

“Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?”

“Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?”

“Wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?”

“Wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?”

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

“When ye dwell among us?”

“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?”

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

“And why did Dan remain in ships?”

“Will ye plead for Baal?”

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

“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?”

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

“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?”

“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?”

“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?”

“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?”

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

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

“What do ye?”

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

“And what have I more?”

“What wickedness is this that is done among you?”

“How long wilt thou be drunken?”

“Why do ye such things?”

“How shall this man save us?”

“Whose ox have I taken?”

“What hast thou done?”

“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?”

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

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

“Why camest thou down hither?”

“What have I now done?”

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

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

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

“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?”

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

“Wherefore then have ye brought him to 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?”

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

“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?”

“Answerest thou not, Abner?”

“Art not thou a valiant man?”

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

“Why hast thou deceived me?”

“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?”

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

“What have I done?”

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

“Wherefore should I smite thee to the ground?”

“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?”

“What hast thou done?”

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

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

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

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

“Why should he go with thee?”

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

“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?”

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

“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?”

“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?”

“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?”

“Wherefore then be ye angry for this matter?”

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

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

“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?”

“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?”

“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?”

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

“Why feignest thou thyself to be another?”

“Art thou he that troubleth Israel?”

“How long halt ye between two opinions?”

“What doest thou here, Elijah?”

“Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel?”

“Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?”

“Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?”

“How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?”

“Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?”

“Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?”

“There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?”

“Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word?”

“Did I not say unto you, Go not?”

“What have I to do with thee?”

“Wilt thou go to him to day?”

“Did I desire a son of my lord?”

“Hast thou rent thy clothes?”

“Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee?”

“Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?”

“Wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow?”

“If the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be?”

“Is all well?”

“Thus saith the king, Is it peace?”

“Thus saith the king, Is it peace?”

“Is it peace, Jehu?”

“Had Zimri peace, who slew his master?”

“Who is on my side?”

“For why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?”

“Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?”

“On whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?”

“Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?”

“How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?”

“Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it?”

“Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?”

“Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad?”

“Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?”

“And shalt thou be delivered?”

“As Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?”

“Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?”

“But, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants?”

“What portion have we in David?”

“How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?”

“Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?”

“Why hast thou 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?”

“But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy?”

“Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?”

“Art thou made of the king's counsel?”

“Why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?”

“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?”

“The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?”

“Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands?”

“Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?”

“What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah?”

“Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?”

“Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?”

“What is this thing that ye do?”

“What do these feeble Jews?”

“Why is the house of God forsaken?”

“Why lodge ye about the wall?”

“Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things?”

“Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?”

“Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?”

“Will he force the queen also before me in the house?”

“Doth Job fear God for nought?”

“Dost thou still retain thine integrity?”

“But what doth your arguing reprove?”

“Will ye speak wickedly for God?”

“Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?”

“Shall vain words have an end?”

“How long will it be ere ye make an end of words?”

“Do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?”

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?”

“Have ye not asked them that go by the way?”

“To whom hast thou uttered words?”

“Why dost thou strive against him?”

“Shall even he that hateth right govern?”

“Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?”

“Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?”

“Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him?”

“Wilt thou also disannul my judgment?”

“Flee as a bird to your mountain?”

“Who is lord over us?”

“Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?”

“Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?”

“Where is thy God?”

“Where is thy God?”

“What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?”

“Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man?”

“For who, say they, doth hear?”

“How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?”

“How doth God know?”

“Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?”

“Can he give bread also?”

“And ye fools, when will ye be wise?”

“Why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?”

“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?”

“What, my son?”

“What will ye see in the Shulamite?”

“Why should ye be stricken any more?”

“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 will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far?”

“Art thou also become weak as we?”

“I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”

“Whom shall he teach knowledge?”

“Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?”

“Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?”

“Ye shall worship before this altar?”

“How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?”

“Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words?”

“Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad?”

“Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?”

“And shalt thou be delivered?”

“What said these men?”

“What have they seen in thine house?”

“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?”

“Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know?”

“Who among you will give ear to this?”

“Who among them can declare this, and shew us former things?”

“Who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people?”

“What begettest thou?”

“Who hath declared this from ancient time?”

“Which among them hath declared these things?”

“When I came, was there no man?”

“Who will contend with me?”

“Who is he that shall condemn me?”

“who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,?”

“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?”

“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?”

“Where is the LORD?”

“Is Israel a servant?”

“I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim?”

“Where are thy gods that thou hast made thee?”

“Will ye plead with me?”

“Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?”

“How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?”

“When thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do?”

“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?”

“Shall they fall, and not arise?”

“If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?”

“Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?”

“What is the burden of the LORD?”

“This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant?”

“Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death?”

“Therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?”

“Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child?”

“Why criest thou for thine affliction?”

“How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter?”