Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say? From where did they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "They have come from a far country, even from Babylon."

He said, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,' says the LORD.

Then he said, "What monument is that which I see?" The men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel."

Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their commandment.

Then David the king went in, and sat before the LORD; and he said, "Who am I, LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.

What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for himself as a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed out of Egypt?

either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.'"

David said to God, "Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued."

But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you."

"Now therefore arise, LORD God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in what is good.

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, "What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?"

He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?'"

When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to your tents, Israel. Now see to your own house, David." So all Israel departed to their tents.

Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what my God says, that will I speak."

and said to the judges, "Consider what you do: for you do not judge for man, but for the LORD; and he is with you in the judgment.

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are on you."

Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?" The man of God answered, "The LORD is able to give you much more than this."

Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand?

But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, "What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you."

Then they asked them, "What are the names of the men were who are constructing this building?

Moreover I make a decree what you shall do to these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses be given with all diligence to these men, that they be not hindered.

I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, and his brothers the temple servants, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.

"Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,

Then the king said to me, "For what do you make request?" So I prayed to the God of heaven.

I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.

The rulers did not know where I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?"

He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?"

Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, "What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall."

Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, "What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?

"What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?"

After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women's house, to find out how Esther did, and what would become of her.

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.

Then the king asked her, "What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom."

The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed."

The king said, "What honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?" Then the king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him."

So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?"

The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed."

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews' enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.

The king said to Esther the queen, "The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces. Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done."

the Jews established, and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year;

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

How forcible are words of uprightness. But your reproof, what does it reprove?

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

What do you know, that we do not know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can Shaddai do for us?'

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from Shaddai on high?

What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

"Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.

"If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.

"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

"Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job.

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

What man is he who fears the LORD? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

"LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

Come, see the LORD's works, what desolations he has made in the earth.

But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?