He could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.

It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,

In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'"'

For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.

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

Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."

The woman said, "Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.'"

Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."

Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?"

As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

"The Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.

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