Genesis 25:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is to be this way, why do I live?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

Cross References

Ezekiel 20:31

When you offer your gifts and make your children pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be consulted by you.

Ezekiel 36:37

Thus says the Lord God: I will also let the house of Israel ask me to do this for them: to multiply their people like sheep.

1 Samuel 10:22

So they inquired again of the Lord, “Did the man come here?” And the Lord said, “See, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”

1 Samuel 22:15

Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? By no means! Do not let the king impute anything to his servant or to any member of my father’s house, for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little.”

1 Samuel 28:6

When Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, not by dreams or by Urim or by prophets.

1 Samuel 30:8

David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I pursue this band? Shall I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.”

1 Samuel 9:9

(Formerly in Israel, anyone who went to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for the one who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)