'Telling' in the Bible
And Jacob {tricked} Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he [intended to] flee.
Then Israel said, "Why did you bring trouble to me by telling the man you still had a brother?"
So Samuel lay down until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, but Samuel was afraid of telling the vision to Eli.
Then Joab said to the man who [was] telling him, "Look, [if] you saw, why did you not strike him down to the ground there? {I would have gladly given you} ten pieces of silver and a leather belt."
It happened that as he [was] telling the king how he had restored the dead to life, suddenly the woman whose son he had restored to life [was] crying out to the king about her household and about her field. Then Gehazi said, "My lord the king, this [is] the woman and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life!"
The heavens [are] telling the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.
We will not hide [them] from their children, telling the next generation the praises of Yahweh, and his power and his wonders that he has done.
A gossip walks [about] telling a secret, but the trustworthy in spirit keeps [the] matter.
But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, "You must not do this thing, for you [are] telling a lie about Ishmael."
Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the insolent men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, "You [are] telling a lie! Yahweh our God did not send you, {saying}, 'You must not go [to] Egypt to dwell as aliens there.'
"Get up! Go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the message that I [am] telling you."