Verses with the word ask in the Apocrypha (20 verses):
1 Esdras 4:42
Then said the king unto him, Ask what thou wilt more than is appointed in the writing, and we will give it thee, because thou art found wisest; and thou shalt sit next me, and shalt be called my cousin.
1 Esdras 8:51
For I was ashamed to ask the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for safeguard against our adversaries.
2 Esdras 2:4
But what shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord.
2 Esdras 4:6
Then answered I and said, What man is able to do that, that thou shouldest ask such things of me?
2 Esdras 4:7
And he said unto me, If I should ask thee how great dwellings are in the midst of the sea, or how many springs are in the beginning of the deep, or how many springs are above the firmament, or which are the outgoings of paradise:
2 Esdras 4:35
Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, How long shall I hope on this fashion? when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?
2 Esdras 4:40
So he answered me, and said, Go thy way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she hath fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.
2 Esdras 5:11
One land also shall ask another, and say, Is righteousness that maketh a man righteous gone through thee? And it shall say, No.
2 Esdras 5:46
And he said unto me, Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bringest forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.
2 Esdras 5:51
He answered me, and said, Ask a woman that beareth children, and she shall tell thee.
2 Esdras 6:10
The hand of man is betwixt the heel and the hand: other question, Esdras, ask thou not.
2 Esdras 8:55
And therefore ask thou no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish.
2 Esdras 10:9
For ask the earth, and she shall tell thee, that it is she which ought to mourn for the fall of so many that grow upon her.
Tobit 4:18
Ask counsel of all that are wise, and despise not any counsel that is profitable.
Sirach 20:15
He giveth little, and upbraideth much; he openeth his mouth like a crier; to day he lendeth, and to morrow will he ask it again: such an one is to be hated of God and man.
Sirach 21:1
My son, hast thou sinned? do so no more, but ask pardon for thy former sins.
Sirach 28:4
He sheweth no mercy to a man, which is like himself: and doth he ask forgiveness of his own sins?
1 Maccabees 3:44
Then was the congregation gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask mercy and compassion.
1 Maccabees 10:72
Ask and learn who I am, and the rest that take our part, and they shall tell thee that thy foot is not able to to flight in their own land.
2 Maccabees 7:2
But one of them that spake first said thus, What wouldest thou ask or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the laws of our fathers.
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