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.

Then let us bring back the ark of our God, for we did not inquire of Him in the days of Saul.”

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.”

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.

but David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, was in Gibeon before the tabernacle of the LORD. So Solomon and the assembly inquired of Him there.

But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for the word of the LORD.”

But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not still a prophet of the LORD here of whom we can inquire?”

And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiahís heart.

“Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD by doing all that is written in this book.”

They also asked, “What are the names of the men who are constructing this building?”

Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.

Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?

Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?

“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.

Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came to me from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”

Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.

This is what each man is to say to his friend and to his brother: ëWhat has the LORD answered?í or ëWhat has the LORD spoken?í

For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the LORD will answer him Myself.