'Answered' in the Bible

Then Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his youth, said, “Moses, my lord, restrain them.”

Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything, either small or great, contrary to the command of the Lord my God.

He replied, “Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”

But Balaam replied to Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘Whatever the Lord speaks, that I must do’?”

The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, “As the Lord has said to your servants, so we will do.