So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why are your faces downcast today?"

Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.

When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. And they turned aside and said to him, "Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?"

And the king said, "Inquire whose son the boy is."

and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.

And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he wanted him to be called.

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' you shall say this: 'The Lord has need of it.'"

So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died. And summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead.

Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood at the gate

and called out to ask whether Simon who was called Peter was lodging there.

The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?

take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?--that I also may do the same.'

that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews who escaped, who had survived the exile, and concerning Jerusalem.

They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, 'Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.'

When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because she was attractive in appearance.

They replied, "The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down'?"

My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

When Pharaoh calls you and says, 'What is your occupation?'