'Speak' in the Bible

The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, "What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart."

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, "I don't want to take her;"

Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.

"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,

"If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, 'In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, "What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?

Gideon said to God, "Don't let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew."

"Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, 'Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh."

Her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of donkeys: and she brought him into her father's house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

It was so, that all who saw it said, "There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak."

Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, 'Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" Then Samuel said, "Speak; for your servant hears."

Saul answered, "Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me like this?"

Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him."

She fell at his feet, and said, "On me, my lord, on me be the iniquity; and please let your handmaid speak in your ears. Hear the words of your handmaid.

Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin.

When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

I, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you."

Go in to the king, and speak like this to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

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

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 the king answered the woman, "Please don't hide anything from me that I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king now speak."

When Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, "Ahithophel has spoken like this. Shall we do what he says? If not, speak up."

Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now."

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

King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, 'Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.

The king said to him, "Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land."

Then a wise woman cried out of the city, "Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.'"

"Go and speak to David, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."'"

He said, "Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife."

Bathsheba said, "Alright. I will speak for you to the king."

Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.

They spoke to him, saying, "If you will be a servant to this people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever."

"Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,

You shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Have you killed and also taken possession?"' You shall speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours."'"

The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good."

Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak."

The king said to him, "How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?"

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Spirit of Yahweh go from me to speak to you?"

One of his servants said, "No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom."

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it. Don't speak with us in the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

But Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?"

Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, "Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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

"Go and speak to David, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."'"

They spoke to him, saying, "If you are kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever."

"Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth. Let your word therefore, please be like one of theirs, and speak good."

Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak."

The king said to him, "How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?"

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "Which way did the Spirit of Yahweh go from me to speak to you?"

He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, "As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand."

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

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.

"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

"How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.

"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

"Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on them.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'

Shall I wait, because they don't speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?

I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.

If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?"

My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart shall utter understanding.

"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.

Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?