'Spoke' in the Bible

They spoke against God, saying,“Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?

You once spoke in a vision to Your loyal onesand said: “I have granted help to a warrior;I have exalted one chosen from the people.

He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud;they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.

He spoke, and insects came—gnats throughout their country.

He spoke, and locusts came—young locusts without number.

for they embittered his spirit,and he spoke rashly with his lips.

He spoke and raised a tempestthat stirred up the waves of the sea.

When Israel came out of Egypt—the house of Jacob from a peoplewho spoke a foreign language—

Then the Lord spoke again to Ahaz:

The Lord spoke to me again:

I will destine you for the sword,and all of you will kneel down to be slaughtered,because I called and you did not answer,I spoke and you did not hear;you did what was evil in My sightand chose what I did not delight in.

So I will choose their punishment,and I will bring on them what they dreadbecause I called and no one answered;I spoke and they didn’t hear;they did what was evil in My sightand chose what I didn’t delight in.

“This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to bring on this city—and on all its dependent villages—all the disaster that I spoke against it, for they have become obstinate, not obeying My words.’”

I spoke to you when you were secure.You said, “I will not listen.”This has been your way since youth;indeed, you have never listened to Me.

The prophet Jeremiah spoke concerning all the people of Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem as follows:

I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah in the same way: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, serve him and his people, and live!

Then I spoke to the priests and all these people, saying, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Do not listen to the words of your prophets. They are prophesying to you, claiming, “Look, very soon now the articles of the Lord’s temple will be brought back from Babylon.” They are prophesying a lie to you.

These are the words the Lord spoke to Israel and Judah.

“Take a scroll, and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations from the time I first spoke to you during Josiah’s reign until today.

He and his officers and the people of the land did not obey the words of the Lord that He spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.

Ebed-melech went from the king’s palace and spoke to the king:

“As for the word you spoke to us in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to listen to you!

This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at Jeremiah’s dictation in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

This is the word the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to defeat the land of Egypt:

The word the Lord spoke about Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:

He spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

As He spoke to me, the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and I listened to the One who was speaking to me.

The Spirit entered me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me and said: “Go, shut yourself inside your house.

The Lord spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with hot coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” So he went in as I watched.

I spoke to the exiles about all the things the Lord had shown me.

I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. The next morning I did just as I was commanded.

You boasted against Me with your mouth, and spoke many words against Me. I heard it Myself!

“This is what the Lord God says: Are you the one I spoke about in former times through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who for years prophesied in those times that I would bring you against them?

He spoke to me: “Son of man, look with your eyes, listen with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for you have been brought here so that I might show it to you. Report everything you see to the house of Israel.”

The Chaldeans spoke to the king (Aramaic begins here): “May the king live forever. Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”

Then Daniel spoke with the king: “May the king live forever.

“While I was considering the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. There were eyes in this horn like a man’s, and it had a mouth that spoke arrogantly.

I also wanted to know about the 10 horns on its head and about the other horn that came up, before which three fell—the horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke arrogantly, and that was more visible than the others.

We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land.

He has carried out His words that He spoke against us and against our rulers by bringing on us so great a disaster that nothing like what has been done to Jerusalem has ever been done under all of heaven.

He said, “Don’t be afraid, you who are treasured by God. Peace to you; be very strong!”As he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”

When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, He said this to him:Go and marry a promiscuous wifeand have children of promiscuity,for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuityby abandoning the Lord.

Jacob struggled with the Angel and prevailed;he wept and sought His favor.He found him at Bethel,and there He spoke with him.

I spoke through the prophetsand granted many visions;I gave parables through the prophets.

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;he was exalted in Israel.But he incurred guilt through Baal and died.

So the Angel of the Lord spoke to those standing before Him, “Take off his filthy clothes!” Then He said to him, “See, I have removed your guilt from you, and I will clothe you with splendid robes.”

The Lord of Hosts says this: “Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words that the prophets spoke when the foundations were laid for the rebuilding of the temple, the house of the Lord of Hosts.

At that time those who feared the Lord spoke to one another. The Lord took notice and listened. So a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who feared Yahweh and had high regard for His name.

When the demon had been driven out, the man spoke. And the crowds were amazed, saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”

Immediately Jesus spoke to them. “Have courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them about John the Baptist.

“Yes,” he said.When he went into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, “What do you think, Simon? Who do earthly kings collect tariffs or taxes from? From their sons or from strangers?”

Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables:

Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples:

So He summoned them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

for they all saw Him and were terrified. Immediately He spoke with them and said, “Have courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

Now concerning the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?

just as He spoke to our ancestors,to Abraham and his descendants forever.

just as He spoke by the mouthof His holy prophets in ancient times;

When the crowds found out, they followed Him. He welcomed them, spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and cured those who needed healing.

Now He was driving out a demon that was mute. When the demon came out, the man who had been mute, spoke, and the crowds were amazed.

“He is not here, but He has been resurrected! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,

Then He told them, “These are My words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

The police answered, “No man ever spoke like this!”

Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

He spoke these words by the treasury, while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hour had not come.

Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke about Him.

Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will also keep yours.

Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said:Father,the hour has come.Glorify Your Sonso that the Son may glorify You,

But Peter remained standing outside by the door. So the other disciple, the one known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the girl who was the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit through the mouth of David spoke in advance about Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.

Seeing this in advance, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah:He was not left in Hades,and His flesh did not experience decay.

Heaven must welcome Him until the times of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about by the mouth of His holy prophets from the beginning.

But they were unable to stand up against his wisdom and the Spirit by whom he was speaking.

God spoke in this way:His descendants would be strangersin a foreign country,and they would enslaveand oppress them 400 years.

He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors. He received living oracles to give to us.

“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip: “Get up and go south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is the desert road.)

When the angel who spoke to him had gone, he called two of his household slaves and a devout soldier, who was one of those who attended him.

Then Paul stood up and motioned with his hand and said: “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen!

The same thing happened in Iconium; they entered the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.

So they stayed there for some time and spoke boldly in reliance on the Lord, who testified to the message of His grace by granting that signs and wonders be performed through them.

After they spoke the message in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke highly of him.

On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate by the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer. We sat down and spoke to the women gathered there.

Then they spoke the message of the Lord to him along with everyone in his house.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught the things about Jesus accurately, although he knew only John’s baptism.

Then he entered the synagogue and spoke boldly over a period of three months, engaging in discussion and trying to persuade them about the things of the kingdom of God.

On the first day of the week, we assembled to break bread. Paul spoke to them, and since he was about to depart the next day, he extended his message until midnight.

Now as he spoke about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix became afraid and replied, “Leave for now, but when I find time I’ll call for you.”

Disagreeing among themselves, they began to leave after Paul made one statement: “The Holy Spirit correctly spoke through the prophet Isaiah to your ancestors

When I was a child,I spoke like a child,I thought like a child,I reasoned like a child.When I became a man,I put aside childish things.

I wish all of you spoke in other languages, but even more that you prophesied. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in languages, unless he interprets so that the church may be built up.

And since we have the same spirit of faith in keeping with what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke, we also believe, and therefore speak.

Long ago God spoke to the fathers by the prophets at different times and in different ways.

Brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name as an example of suffering and patience.

because no prophecy ever came by the will of man; instead, men spoke from God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

but received a rebuke for his transgression: A donkey that could not talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s irrationality.

and he cried out with a loud voice like a roaring lion. When he cried out, the seven thunders spoke with their voices.

And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write. Then I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders said, and do not write it down!”