'Spake' in the Bible

And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?

Also they spake of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Jehovah had commanded to Israel.

and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews language, but according to the language of each people.