Questions from God are found more often in Scripture, and they’re often God’s method of teaching. Think of Jonah 4:4, where the Lord asks Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry?” The Lord Jesus asked Peter, “Simon Peter, do you love me?” This particular question of the angel’s is an echo, for example, of the Lord’s questioning of Eve in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:13; see also Genesis 12:18; Genesis 26:10; Genesis 29:25; Exodus 14:11; Judges 8:1; Judges 15:11), when she was deceived by the serpent after Adam failed to cast Satan from the garden. Questions from God are found more often in Scripture, and they’re often God’s method of teaching. Just as the first couple failed to cast Satan from the Garden of Eden, so too Israel has allowed the seed of the serpent (the Canaanites) to remain in Canaan. This will lead to nothing but trouble and to the nation’s fall.
2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?