“whence” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word whence appears 77 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 50 matching verses are shown below.
- Genesis 16:8 He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.
- Genesis 24:5 The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place from whence thou camest out?
- Genesis 29:4 And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? They answered: Of Haran.
- Genesis 42:7 And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life.
- Numbers 11:13 Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? They weep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat.
- Numbers 23:13 Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them from thence.
- Numbers 33:42 From whence they removed and came to Phunon.
- Numbers 34:4 Which limits shall go round on the south side by the ascent of the Scorpion and so into Senna, and reach toward the south as far as Cadesbarne, from whence the frontiers shall go out to the town called Adar, and shall reach as far as Asemona.
- Deuteronomy 11:10 For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.
- Josue 2:4 And the woman taking the men, hid them, and said: I confess they came to me, but I knew not whence they were:
- Josue 9:8 But they said to Josue: We are thy servants. Josue said to them: Who are you? and whence came you?
- Josue 20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, till he stand before judgment to give an account of his fact, and till the death of the high priest, who shall be at that time: then shall the manslayer return, and go into his own city and house from whence he fled.
- Judges 3:26 But Aod, while they were in confusion, escaped, and passed by the place of the idols from whence he had returned. And he came to Seirath:
- Judges 13:6 And when she was come to her husband, she said to him: A man of God came to me, having the countenance of an angel, very awful. And when I asked him who he was, and whence he came, and by what name he was called, he would not tell me:
- Judges 17:9 He was asked by him whence he came. And he answered: I am a Levite of Bethlehem Juda, and I am going to dwell where I can, and where I shall find a place to my advantage.
- Judges 19:17 And the old man lifting up his eyes, saw the man sitting with his bundles in the street of the city, and said to him: Whence comest thou? and whither goest thou?
- Judges 19:18 He answered him: We came out from Bethlehem Juda, and we are going to our home, which is on the side of mount Ephraim, from whence we went to Bethlehem: and now we go to the house of God, and none will receive us under his roof:
- Judges 21:7 Whence shall they take wives? For we have all in general sworn, not to give our daughters to them.
- Ruth 2:10 She fell on her face, and worshipping upon the ground, said to him: Whence cometh this to me, that I should find grace before thy eyes, and that thou shouldst vouchsafe to take notice of me, a woman of another country?
- 1 Kings 25:11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my cattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I know not whence they are?
- 1 Kings 30:13 And David said to him: To whom dost thou belong; or whence dost thou come? and whither art thou going? He said: I am a young man of Egypt, the servant of an Amalecite: and my master left me, because I began to be sick three days ago.
- 2 Kings 1:3 And David said to him: From whence comest thou? And he said to him: I am fled out of the camp of Israel.
- 2 Kings 1:13 And David said to the young man that told him: Whence art thou? He answered: I am the son of a stranger of Amalec.
- 4 Kings 5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Eliseus said: Whence comest thou, Giezi? He answered: Thy servant went no whither.
- 4 Kings 20:14 And Isaias, the prophet, came to king Ezechias, and said to him: What said these men? or from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias said to him: From a far country, they came to me out of Babylon.
- 2 Esdras 4:12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews that dwelt by them came and told us ten times, out of all the places from whence they came to us,
- Tobias 5:6 And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he saluted him, and said: From whence art thou, good young man?
- Tobias 7:3 And when he had spoken these words, he said: Whence are ye young men our brethren?
- Tobias 11:5 But Anna sat beside the way daily, on the top of a hill, from whence she might see afar off.
- Judith 10:11 And it came to pass, when she went down the hill, about break of day, that the watchmen of the Assyrians met her, and stopped her, saying: Whence comest thou or whither goest thou?
- Job 1:7 And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.
- Job 2:2 That the Lord said to Satan: Whence comest thou? And he answered, and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.
- Job 28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
- Psalms 120:1 I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.
- Ecclesiastes 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not overflow: unto the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.
- Ecclesiasticus 27:30 A mischievous counsel shall be rolled back upon the author, and he shall not know from whence it cometh to him.
- Ecclesiasticus 33:10 Some of them God made high and great days, and some of them he put in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground, and out of the earth, from whence Adam was created.
- Ecclesiasticus 37:3 O wicked presumption, whence camest thou to cover the earth with thy malice, and deceitfulness?
- Isaias 23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is destroyed, from whence they were wont to come: from the land of Cethim it is revealed to them.
- Isaias 30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south. In a land of trouble and distress, from whence come the lioness, and the lion, the viper and the flying basilisk, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of beasts, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall not be able to profit them.
- Isaias 39:3 Then Isaias the prophet came to king Ezechias, and said to him: What said these men, and from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias said: From a far country they came to me, from Babylon.
- Isaias 51:1 Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug out.
- Baruch 6:51 Whence, therefore, is it known that they are not gods, but the work of men’s hands, and no work of God is in them?
- Nahum 3:7 And it shall come to pass that every one that shall see thee, shall flee from thee, and shall say: Ninive is laid waste: who shall bemoan thee? whence shall I seek a comforter for thee?
- 1 Machabees 6:12 But now I remember the evils that I have done in Jerusalem, from whence also I took away all the spoils of gold, and of silver, that were in it, and I sent to destroy the inhabitants of Juda without cause.
- Matthew 12:44 Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
- Matthew 13:27 And the servants of the good man of the house coming said to him. Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath it cockle?
- Matthew 13:56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence therefore hath he all these things?
- Matthew 15:33 And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude?