Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
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Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
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And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
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and go in to the king, and speak on this manner unto him.' So Joab put the words in her mouth.
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Passages linked to 2 Samuel 14:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Samuel 14:19 The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant.
- Exodus 4:15 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
- Numbers 23:5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
- Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
- Isaiah 51:16 I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”
- Isaiah 59:21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”
- Jeremiah 1:9 Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, put words in her mouth.
Hebrew, put words in her mouth.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Sa 14:3 And come to the king, and speak…
2Sa 14:3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
Ver. 3. And come to the king, and speak on this manner,] viz, By way of parable: the property whereof is, deeply to affect, and to leave a very vehement impression behind it.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And come to the king,.... At his palace, in…
And come to the king,.... At his palace, in the above condition and circumstances:
and speak on this manner unto him; something to the following purpose he dictated to her:
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so Joab put the words in her mouth; the substance of what she should say; the fable she was to deliver as her own case might be framed by Joab, and which she delivered word for word exactly as he put it, and the application of it; but as he knew not what questions the king would ask her, so he could not dictate to her what to reply, unless he supposed this and the other, and so formed answers; but this he left to her prudence, and for the sake of which he chose a wise woman to manage this affair.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Come to the king - The king as a…
Come to the king - The king as a judge was accessible to all his subjects (2Sa 15:2; compare 1Ki 3:16).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. come to the king] An interesting evidence of…
3. come to the king] An interesting evidence of the simplicity of the times, when the king was thus directly accessible to his subjects who had causes to be tried or grievances to be redressed. Cp. ch. 2Sa_15:2; 1Ki_3:16.
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