"Why not"

1. Neh. 2: 3
   3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be ^asad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
2. Job 21: 4
   4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
3. Ezek. 18: 19
   19 ¶ Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
4. Matt. 17: 19
   19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
5. Mark 7: 5
   5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with ^aunwashen hands?
6. Mark 9: 28
   28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
7. John 12: 5
   5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
8. 1 Ne. 3: 31
   31 And after the angel had departed, Laman and Lemuel again began to ^amurmur, saying: How is it possible that the Lord will deliver Laban into our hands? Behold, he is a mighty man, and he can command fifty, yea, even he can slay fifty; then why not us?
9. 1 Ne. 4: 1
   1 And it came to pass that I spake unto my brethren, saying: Let us go up again unto Jerusalem, and let us be ^afaithful in keeping the commandments of the Lord; for behold he is mightier than all the earth, then why not ^bmightier than Laban and his fifty, yea, or even than his tens of thousands?
10. Jacob 4: 9, 12
    9 For behold, by the power of his ^aword ^bman came upon the face of the earth, which earth was ^ccreated by the power of his word. Wherefore, if God being able to speak and the world was, and to speak and man was created, O then, why not able to command the ^dearth, or the workmanship of his hands upon the face of it, according to his will and pleasure?
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    12 And now, beloved, marvel not that I tell you these things; for why not ^aspeak of the atonement of Christ, and attain to a perfect knowledge of him, as to attain to the knowledge of a resurrection and the world to come?
11. Alma 21: 5
    5 Therefore, as Aaron entered into one of their ^asynagogues to preach unto the people, and as he was speaking unto them, behold there arose an Amalekite and began to contend with him, saying: What is that thou hast testified? Hast thou seen an ^bangel? Why do not angels appear unto us? Behold ^care not this people as good as thy people?
12. Hel. 8: 20
    20 And behold, also ^aZenock, and also ^bEzias, and also ^cIsaiah, and ^dJeremiah, (Jeremiah being that same prophet who testified of the destruction of ^eJerusalem) and now we know that Jerusalem was destroyed according to the words of Jeremiah. O then why not the Son of God come, according to his prophecy?