When you offer your gifts and sacrifice your sons by fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
Genesis 25:22 - Revised Standard Version The children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is thus, why do I live?” So 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. |
When you offer your gifts and sacrifice your sons by fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
“Thus says the Lord God: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their men like a flock.
So they inquired again of the Lord, “Did the man come hither?” and the Lord said, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”
Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father; for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little.”
And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.
And David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.”
(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let us go to the seer”; for he who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)