Genesis 25:22 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The children struggled together within her. She said, *If it be so, why do I live?* She went to inquire of the LORD. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Two] children struggled together within her; and she said, If it is so [that the Lord has heard our prayer], why am I like this? And she went to inquire of the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of Jehovah. Common English Bible But the boys pushed against each other inside of her, and she said, “If this is what it’s like, why did it happen to me?” So she went to ask the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version But the little ones struggled in her womb. So she said, "If it was to be so with me, what need was there to conceive?" And she went to consult the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But the children struggled in her womb; and she said: If it were to be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to consult the Lord. |
and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, house of Yisra'el? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you;
Thus says the Lord GOD: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Yisra'el, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
Therefore they asked of the LORD further, Is there yet a man to come here? the LORD answered, Behold, he has hid himself among the baggage.
Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.
When Sha'ul inquired of the LORD, the LORD didn't answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
David inquired of the LORD, saying, If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them? He answered him, Pursue; for you shall surely overtake [them], and shall without fail recover [all].
(In earlier times in Yisra'el, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he who is now called a Prophet was before called a Seer.)