'Asking' in the Bible

The Ephraimites assembled and crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, "Why did you go and fight with the Ammonites without asking us to go with you? We will burn your house down right over you!"

So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.

When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel's tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin's border. They will say to you, 'The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! He is asking, "What should I do about my son?"'

Then the people said to Samuel, "Who were the ones asking, 'Will Saul reign over us?' Hand over those men so we may execute them!"

Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the Lord so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the Lord by asking for a king for yourselves."

All the people said to Samuel, "Pray to the Lord your God on behalf of us -- your servants -- so we won't die, for we have added to all our sins by asking for a king."

Samuel said, "Why are you asking me, now that the Lord has turned away from you and has become your enemy?

Then Absalom sent a message to Joab asking him to send him to the king, but Joab was not willing to come to him. So he sent a second message to him, but he still was not willing to come.

The Gibeonites said to him, "We have no claim to silver or gold from Saul or from his family, nor would we be justified in putting to death anyone in Israel." David asked, "What then are you asking me to do for you?"

We inquired of those elders, asking them, 'Who gave you the authority to rebuild this temple and to complete this structure?'

So I registered a complaint with the leaders, asking "Why is the temple of God neglected?" Then I gathered them and reassigned them to their positions.

I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse --

They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

Whoever corrects a mocker is asking for insult; whoever reproves a wicked person receives abuse.

They will say to you, "Seek oracles at the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, from the magicians who chirp and mutter incantations. Should people not seek oracles from their gods, by asking the dead about the destiny of the living?"

What the king is asking is too difficult, and no one exists who can disclose it to the king, except for the gods -- but they don't live among mortals!"

Daniel replied to the king, "The mystery that the king is asking about is such that no wise men, astrologers, magicians, or diviners can possibly disclose it to the king.

Then those officials who had gone to the king came by collusion and found Daniel praying and asking for help before his God.

by asking both the priests of the temple of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, "Should we weep in the fifth month, fasting as we have done over the years?"

When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him asking for help:

While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside, asking to speak to him.

Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?" They said to him, "We are able."

Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. "If you are willing, you can make me clean," he said.

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?"

They had been asking each other, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?"

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

So the crowds were asking him, "What then should we do?"

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave.

Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, "Where is he?"

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."

Then they began asking him, "Who is your father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too."

And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them, "Are you asking each other about this -- that I said, 'In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me'?

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, "What does this foolish babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods." (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)

When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.

If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.

For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Since I was confident that you would obey, I wrote to you, because I knew that you would do even more than what I am asking you to do.