The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?

The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’

He said, “Come in, O blessed of the Lord. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”

The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’

Then Moses turned to the Lord and said, “O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me?

The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?”

But Moses implored the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

“Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is a thing most holy and has been given to you that you may bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?

And those men said to him, “We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the Lord's offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?”

Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”

With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

But Moses said, “Why now are you transgressing the command of the Lord, when that will not succeed?

They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”

Why have you brought the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?

And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you because your way is perverse before me.

Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that the Lord has given them?

Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die.

all the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’

And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!

The Sin of Achan

The Lord said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face?