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1. Judges 15:10 לָמָ֖ה

   “Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”

2. Judges 15:11 וּמַה־

   In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.

3. Judges 16:5 בַּמֶּה֙וּבַמֶּה֙

   The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

4. Judges 16:6 בַּמֶּ֖הוּבַמֶּ֥ה

   So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

5. Judges 16:10 בַּמֶּ֖ה

   Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”

6. Judges 16:13 בַּמֶּ֖ה

   Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man. ”

7. Judges 16:15 בַּמֶּ֖ה

   “How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”

8. Judges 18:3 וּמָֽה־וּמַה־

   And while they were near Micah’s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they went over and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”

9. Judges 18:8 מָ֥ה

   When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”

10. Judges 18:14 מַֽה־

    Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.”

11. Judges 18:18 מָ֥ה

    When they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

12. Judges 18:23 מַה־

    When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”

13. Judges 18:24 וּמַה־וּמַה־מַה־

    He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”

14. Judges 20:12 מָ֚ה

    And the tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?

15. Judges 21:3 לָמָ֗ה

    “Why, O LORD God of Israel,” they cried out, “has this happened in Israel? Today in Israel one tribe is missing!”

16. Judges 21:7 מַה־

    What should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”

17. Judges 21:16 מַה־

    Then the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”

18. Ruth 1:11 לָ֥מָּה

    But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?

19. Ruth 1:21 לָ֣מָּה

    I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”

20. 1 Samuel 1:8 לָ֣מֶהוְלָ֙מֶה֙וְלָ֖מֶה

    “Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

21. 1 Samuel 2:23 לָ֥מָּה

    “Why are you doing these things?” Eli said to his sons. “I hear about your wicked deeds from all these people.

22. 1 Samuel 2:29 לָ֣מָּה

    Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’

23. 1 Samuel 3:17 מָ֤ה

    “What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.”

24. 1 Samuel 4:3 לָ֣מָּה

    When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with us to save us from the hand of our enemies.”

25. 1 Samuel 4:6 מֶ֠ה

    On hearing the noise of the shout, the Philistines asked, “What is this loud shouting in the camp of the Hebrews?” And when they realized that the ark of the LORD had entered the camp,

26. 1 Samuel 4:14 מֶ֛ה

    Eli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion?” So the man hurried over and reported to Eli.

27. 1 Samuel 4:16 מֶֽה־

    “I have just come from the battle,” the man said to Eli. “I fled from there today.” “What happened, my son?” Eli asked.

28. 1 Samuel 5:8 מַֽה־

    So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” “It must be moved to Gath,” they replied. So they carried away the ark of the God of Israel.

29. 1 Samuel 6:2 מַֽה־בַּמֶּ֖ה

    the Philistines summoned the priests and diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how to send it back to its place.”

30. 1 Samuel 6:3 לָ֛מָּה

    They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”

31. 1 Samuel 6:4 מָ֣ה

    “What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.

32. 1 Samuel 6:6 וְלָ֤מָּה

    Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people on their way as they departed?

33. 1 Samuel 9:7 וּמַה־מָ֖ה

    “If we do go,” Saul replied, “what can we give the man? For the bread in our packs is gone, and there is no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”

34. 1 Samuel 9:21 וְלָ֙מָּה֙

    Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing to me?”

35. 1 Samuel 10:2 מָ֥ה

    When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’

36. 1 Samuel 10:11 מַה־

    All those who had formerly known Saul and saw him prophesying with the prophets asked one another, “What has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

37. 1 Samuel 10:15 מָֽה־

    “Tell me,” Saul’s uncle asked, “what did Samuel say to you?”

38. 1 Samuel 10:27 מַה־

    But some worthless men said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him and brought him no gifts; but Saul remained silent about it.

39. 1 Samuel 11:5 מַה־

    Just then Saul was returning from the field, behind his oxen. “What troubles the people?” asked Saul. “Why are they weeping?” And they relayed to him the words of the men from Jabesh.

40. 1 Samuel 13:11 מֶ֣ה

    “What have you done?” Samuel asked. And Saul replied, “When I saw that the troops were deserting me, and that you did not come at the appointed time and the Philistines were gathering at Michmash,

41. 1 Samuel 14:38 בַּמָּ֗ה

    Therefore Saul said, “Come here, all you leaders of the troops, and let us investigate how this sin has occurred today.

42. 1 Samuel 14:43 מֶ֣ה

    “Tell me what you have done,” Saul commanded him. So Jonathan told him, “I only tasted a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. And now I must die?”

43. 1 Samuel 15:14 וּמֶ֛ה

    But Samuel replied, “Then what is this bleating of sheep and lowing of cattle that I hear?”

44. 1 Samuel 15:19 וְלָ֥מָּה

    So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”

45. 1 Samuel 17:8 לָ֥מָּה

    And Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and array yourselves for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose one of your men and have him come down against me.

46. 1 Samuel 17:26 מַה־

    David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

47. 1 Samuel 17:28 לָמָּה־

    Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”

48. 1 Samuel 17:29 מֶ֥ה

    “What have I done now?” said David. “Was it not just a question?”

49. 1 Samuel 19:3 מָ֖ה

    I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, so I can ask about you. And if I find out anything, I will tell you.”

50. 1 Samuel 19:5 וְלָ֤מָּה

    He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”