Genesis 12:18
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So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
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The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
“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?”
“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”