The word of Abner {came to} the elders of Israel, saying, "{For quite some time} you were seeking David as king over you.

But it happened {that night}, the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,

In all of my going about among all the {Israelites}, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, 'Why did you not build me a cedar house?'" '

Because of your word and according to your heart, you have done all of this great thing, [in order] to let your servant know.

So then, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do just as you have promised.

When the {Ammonites} saw that they had become odious to David, the {Ammonites} sent [word] and hired Aram Beth-Rehob and Aram-Zobah, twenty thousand infantry; and [they also hired] the king of Maacah, a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men.

Why have you despised the word of Yahweh by doing evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to yourself as wife! You have killed him with the sword of the {Ammonites}!

He sent [word] by the hand of Nathan the prophet, so he called him Jedidiah because of Yahweh.

Jonadab said to the king, "Look, the sons of the king have come. According to the word of your servant, so it has come about."

Then you must go to the king and speak to him according to this word." [Thus] Joab put the words in her mouth.

The woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." And he said, "Speak."

The woman said, "But why have you plotted like this against the people of God? By speaking this word, he is guilty not to bring back his banished one.

Now I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, because the people made me afraid, and your servant thought, 'I will speak to the king, perhaps the king will grant the request of his servant.

Your servant also thought, 'May the word of my lord the king {bring rest}, for as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the king, {to sense what is good and what is bad}.' May Yahweh your God be with you."

See, I [am] waiting at the fords of the wilderness until a word comes from you all to inform me."

The counsel that Ahithophel gave in those days [was] regarded as when a man inquired of the word of God, so all the counsel of Ahithophel [was esteemed] both by David and by Absalom.

The word [was] right in the eyes of Absalom and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.

So Hushai came to Absalom, who said to him, "Shall we do according to this word [that] Ahithophel has spoken? If not, then you tell [us]."

So he turned the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, and they sent [word] to the king, "Return, you and all your servants."

Then the people of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, "I have {ten times as much} in the king, moreover in David I have more than you. Why did you treat me with contempt {by not giving me first chance} to bring back my king?" But the words of the men of Judah [were] fiercer than the word of the men of Israel.

"The spirit of Yahweh speaks through me, and his word [is] upon my tongue.

But the word of the king prevailed over Joab and over the commanders of the army, so Joab and the commanders of the army went out from before the king to count the people of Israel.

When David got up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to Gad the prophet, the seer of David, saying,

Then Gad came to David, and he told him and said to him, "Shall seven years of famine in the land come to you? Or three months of your fleeing from your enemies while he [is] pursuing you? Or should there be three days of pestilence in your land? Now consider and decide what I must return to the one who sent me a word."

So David went up according to the word of Gad, as Yahweh had commanded.