And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You deliver them into the hand of Israel? But He did not answer him that day.

He had not inquired after Jehovah; therefore He killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

when your terror comes like a storm; and your devastation arrives like a tempest, when distress and anguish come upon you.

Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her rulers are among the nations. The law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.

It came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain men of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Jehovah, and sat before me.

Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.

Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone reveres God and does His will, He hears him.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your lusts.

And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to the heavens; and behold the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your Seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and called out, Jacob! Jacob! And he said, Here am I.

I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will arise to bring you back. And Joseph shall put his hand on your eyes.

And He said, Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, Jehovah, reveal Myself to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream.

For the Mighty God may speak once or twice, yet no one regards it.

then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction.

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says Jehovah.

But while he was pondering these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be set in gold settings.

And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire before Jehovah for him according to the judgment of the Urim. At his mouth they shall go out, and at his mouth they shall come in, he and all the children of Israel with him; all the congregation.

And of Levi he said: Let Your Thummim and Your Urim be with Your Godly man, whom You tested at Massah, and with whom You contended at the waters of Meribah;

We do not see our signs; there is no prophet any more; neither is there among us any who knows how long.

Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her rulers are among the nations. The law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.

Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.