'Talking' in the Bible

With that, God finished talking to Abraham, and ascended, leaving him.

As soon as he finished talking to Abraham, the LORD left and Abraham returned to where he had been sitting.

Rebekah gave these instructions to her son Jacob: "Quick! Pay attention!" she said. "I heard your father talking to your brother Esau. He told him,

While he was still talking with them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, since she was a shepherdess.

So on the way, he turned aside, approached her, and said, "Come on! Let's have some sex!" But he didn't realize that he was talking to his own daughter-in-law. "What will you give me," she asked, "in order to have sex with me?"

She kept on talking to him like this day after day, but he wouldn't listen to her. Not only would he refuse to have sex with her, he refused even to stay around her.

Meanwhile, they had no idea that Joseph could understand them, since he was talking to them through an interpreter.

But the entire congregation was talking about stoning them to death.

Teach them to your children, talking about them while sitting in your house, walking on the road, or when you are about to lie down or get up.

where you will hear what they're talking about. That way, you'll be encouraged to attack the encampment." So he and his servant Purah went down to the perimeter outposts of the encamped army.

Gideon arrived just as a soldier was talking to a friend about a dream. "Look!" he was saying. "I had a dream that went like this: A loaf of barley bread rolled into the Midianite encampment, came to a tent, and collided with it. The loaf of bread fell down, turned upside down, and the tent collapsed!"

Then she continued talking with her father, "Do this for me: leave me alone by myself for two months. I'll go up to the mountains and cry there because I'll never marry. My friends and I will go."

Eliab his oldest brother heard him talking to the men. Eliab was angry with David and said, "Why did you come down here? And who did you leave those few sheep with in the wilderness? I know your insolence and wicked intentions. You came down just to see the battle!"

David was in great danger because all the people were bitter because of their sons and daughters, and they were talking about stoning him. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

In response, the king told him, "What's the point of us talking anymore? My decision is that you and Ziba divide the fields."

Then, while you are still talking to the king, I'll come in after you and verify your statement."

While she was still talking to the king, Nathan the prophet arrived.

As they continued on, talking as they went, suddenly chariots blazing with fire and pulled by fiery horses appeared, separated the two of them, and Elijah ascended in a wind storm to heaven!

While he was still talking with them, the messenger arrived to see him and delivered the king's message to Elisha, "Look! This evil has come from the LORD! Why should I wait for the LORD anymore?"

Now there happened to be four lepers who were at that very moment at the entrance to the city gate. As they were talking with one another, they said, "Why are we sitting here waiting to die?

The king was talking with Gehazi, the attendant of the man of God. He had asked Gehazi, "Please tell me about all of the great things that Elisha has done."

While they were still talking to him, the king's eunuchs arrived, and they quickly took him to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

But he replied to her, "You're talking like foolish women do. Are we to accept what is good from God but not tragedy?" Throughout all of this, Job did not sin by what he said.

"How long will you keep talking like this? How long will you keep talking like a wind storm?

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Where's the profit in talking to him?'

Shall I continue to wait, since they're no longer talking? After all, they're only standing there; they're no longer responding.

"Who is this who keeps darkening my counsel without knowing what he's talking about?

because they plan violence, and they are always talking about trouble.

Too many worries lead to nightmares, and a fool is known from talking too much.

"Son of Man, pay attention! The house of Israel keeps on saying, "The vision that he's talking about concerns the distant future. He's prophesying concerning times that are far in the future!'

"Son of Man, turn to the south and oppose it, talking toward the south.

Then I asked, "Who are these, sir?" The messenger who was talking to me answered, "I will tell you who these are."

I asked the angel who was talking to me, "What are those?" So he answered me, "Those are the forces that have dispersed Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."

Look! That angel who was talking to me left, and another angel came forward to meet him.

Then the angel who had been talking with me stepped forward and told me, "Please look up and see what's going out."

So I asked the angel who was talking to me, "Where are they taking the basket?"

In response, I asked the angel who had been talking with me, "Sir, what are these?"