'Saying' in the Bible

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez saying, “Because I bore him with pain.”

Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from harm that it may not pain me!” And God granted him what he requested.

From Manasseh also some defected to David when he was about to go to battle with the Philistines against Saul. But they did not help them, for the lords of the Philistines after consultation sent him away, saying, “At the cost of our heads he may defect to his master Saul.”

David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring the ark of God home to me?”

David inquired of God, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? And will You give them into my hand?” Then the Lord said to him, “Go up, for I will give them into your hand.”

Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan,As the portion of your inheritance.”

He permitted no man to oppress them,And He reproved kings for their sakes, saying,

It came about the same night that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

In all places where I have walked with all Israel, have I spoken a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people, saying, ‘Why have you not built for Me a house of cedar?’”’

Let Your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel; and the house of David Your servant is established before You.’

The Lord spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,

“Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord, “I offer you three things; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you.”’”

But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars; you shall not build a house to My name, because you have shed so much blood on the earth before Me.

David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon, saying,