Genesis 25:22
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22 But the two children struggled with each other in her womb. So she went to ask the Lord about it. “Why is this happening to me?” she asked.
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1 Samuel 9:9
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9 (In those days if people wanted a message from God, they would say, “Let’s go and ask the seer,” for prophets used to be called seers.)
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Ezekiel 20:31
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31 For when you offer gifts to them and give your little children to be burned as sacrifices,[a] you continue to pollute yourselves with idols to this day. Should I allow you to ask for a message from me, O people of Israel? As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I will tell you nothing.
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- 20:31 Or and make your little children pass through the fire.
1 Samuel 30:8
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8 Then David asked the Lord, “Should I chase after this band of raiders? Will I catch them?”
And the Lord told him, “Yes, go after them. You will surely recover everything that was taken from you!”
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1 Samuel 28:6
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6 He asked the Lord what he should do, but the Lord refused to answer him, either by dreams or by sacred lots[a] or by the prophets.
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- 28:6 Hebrew by Urim.
1 Samuel 10:22
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22 So they asked the Lord, “Where is he?”
And the Lord replied, “He is hiding among the baggage.”
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Ezekiel 36:37
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37 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am ready to hear Israel’s prayers and to increase their numbers like a flock.
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1 Samuel 22:15
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15 This was certainly not the first time I had consulted God for him! May the king not accuse me and my family in this matter, for I knew nothing at all of any plot against you.”
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