'Asked' in the Bible

Then I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ And she said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him’; and I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her wrists.

When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking, “the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is beautiful.”

Then Jacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.

A man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

He asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the temple prostitute who was by the road at Enaim?” But they said, “There has been no temple prostitute here.”

He asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in confinement in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so sad today?”

Then he asked them about their welfare, and said, “Is your old father well, of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?”

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

Moreover, the foremen of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not completed your required amount either yesterday or today in making brick as previously?”

The Lord did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants and from his people; not one remained.

Then Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed down and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent.

This is according to all that you asked of the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.’

In accordance with the command of the Lord they gave him the city for which he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. So he built the city and settled in it.

“He asked for water and she gave him milk;In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.

They turned aside there and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

Then Eli answered and said, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of Him.”

It came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of the Lord.”

For this boy I prayed, and the Lord has given me my petition which I asked of Him.

So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who had asked of him a king.

Now therefore, here is the king whom you have chosen, whom you have asked for, and behold, the Lord has set a king over you.

therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not asked the favor of the Lord.’ So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering.”

Then he himself went to Ramah and came as far as the large well that is in Secu; and he asked and said, “Where are Samuel and David?” And someone said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”

If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethlehem his city, because it is the yearly sacrifice there for the whole family.’

Jonathan then answered Saul, “David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem,

When Uriah came to him, David asked concerning the welfare of Joab and the people and the state of the war.

It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.

God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice,

I have also given you what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you all your days.

He said, “You have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so.”

When the king asked the woman, she related it to him. So the king appointed for her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers and all the produce of the field from the day that she left the land even until now.”

So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the Lord, because of the word of the Lord which he did not keep; and also because he asked counsel of a medium, making inquiry of it,

God said to Solomon, “Because you had this in mind, and did not ask for riches, wealth or honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor have you even asked for long life, but you have asked for yourself wisdom and knowledge that you may rule My people over whom I have made you king,

Then we asked those elders and said to them thus, ‘Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure?’

We also asked them their names so as to inform you, and that we might write down the names of the men who were at their head.

that Hanani, one of my brothers, and some men from Judah came; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped and had survived the captivity, and about Jerusalem.

And all the people gathered as one man at the square which was in front of the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.

But during all this time I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had gone to the king. After some time, however, I asked leave from the king,

Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would presume to do thus?”

“Have you not asked wayfaring men,And do you not recognize their witness?

He asked life of You,You gave it to him,Length of days forever and ever.

One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek:That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,To behold the beauty of the LordAnd to meditate in His temple.

They asked, and He brought quail,And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

Two things I asked of You,Do not refuse me before I die:

There was a certain man without a dependent, having neither a son nor a brother, yet there was no end to all his labor. Indeed, his eyes were not satisfied with riches and he never asked, “And for whom am I laboring and depriving myself of pleasure?” This too is vanity and it is a grievous task.

And they asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us, please, how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation?”

Now King Zedekiah sent and took him out; and in his palace the king secretly asked him and said, “Is there a word from the Lord?” And Jeremiah said, “There is!” Then he said, “You will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon!”

Behold, when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, ‘Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?’”

The Chaldeans answered the king and said, “There is not a man on earth who could declare the matter for the king, inasmuch as no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any magician, conjurer or Chaldean.

so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testing Jesus, they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven.

And His disciples asked Him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him,

Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question:

This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Immediately she came in a hurry to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

The Pharisees and the scribes *asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?”

Taking the blind man by the hand, He brought him out of the village; and after spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, “Do you see anything?”

They asked Him, saying, “Why is it that the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

And He asked them, “What are you discussing with them?”

And He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.

One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?”

Joseph of Arimathea came, a prominent member of the Council, who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God; and he gathered up courage and went in before Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.

And he asked for a tablet and wrote as follows, “His name is John.” And they were all astonished.

And He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little way from the land. And He sat down and began teaching the people from the boat.

And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion”; for many demons had entered him.

And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes and the surrounding district asked Him to leave them, for they were gripped with great fear; and He got into a boat and returned.

Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he?

Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee *asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in, and reclined at the table.

So Pilate asked Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?” And He answered him and said, “It is as you say.”

When Pilate heard it, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.

this man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” And he *said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”

They asked him, and said to him, “Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk’?”

And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”

Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.

Therefore He again asked them, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”

Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body.

But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

David found favor in God’s sight, and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what the vision which he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions for Simon’s house, appeared at the gate;

And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on for a few days.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

And though they found no ground for putting Him to death, they asked Pilate that He be executed.

When they asked him to stay for a longer time, he did not consent,

So he took him and led him to the commander and *said, “Paul the prisoner called me to him and asked me to lead this young man to you since he has something to tell you.”

When he had read it, he asked from what province he was, and when he learned that he was from Cilicia,

Being at a loss how to investigate such matters, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there stand trial on these matters.

They only asked us to remember the poor—the very thing I also was eager to do.

And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.