They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything hidden from the king which he did not tell her.

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great train, and camels that bore spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him of all that was in her heart.

Solomon told her all her questions; and there was not anything hidden from Solomon which he did not tell her.

Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me.

"Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.