LXX Concordance for λέγουσιν

So the Adullamite returned to Judah, saying, “I couldn't find her, and besides, the men of the place said, ‘There has been no cult prostitute here.' ”

They answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, or else he may strike us with plague or sword.”

“No straw has been given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks! ' Look, your servants are being beaten, but it is your own people who are at fault.”

Pharaoh's officials asked him, “How long must this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Don't you realize yet that Egypt is devastated? ”

When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make gods[fn] for us who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt ​— ​we don't know what has happened to him! ”

“They said to me, ‘Make gods for us who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt ​— ​we don't know what has happened to him! '

“We will go on the main road,” the Israelites replied to them, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay its price. There will be no problem; only let us travel through on foot.”

They came to Balaam and said to him, “This is what Balak son of Zippor says: ‘Let nothing keep you from coming to me,

They stood before Moses, the priest Eleazar, the leaders, and the entire community at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,

So Moses commanded the Israelites at the word of the LORD, “What the tribe of Joseph's descendants says is right.

When the people of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of Israel's God must not stay here with us, because his hand is strongly against us and our god Dagon.”

They asked, “What guilt offering should we send back to him? ”

And they answered, “Five gold tumors and five gold mice corresponding to the number of Philistine rulers, since there was one plague for both you[fn] and your rulers.

As they were climbing the hill to the city, they found some young women coming out to draw water and asked, “Is the seer here? ”

“Don't do anything to us for seven days,” the elders of Jabesh said to him, “and let us send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. If no one saves us, we will surrender to you.”

They let themselves be seen by the Philistine garrison, and the Philistines said, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they've been hiding! ”

When Saul sent agents to seize David, Michal said, “He's sick.”

The Philistine commanders, however, were enraged with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the battle. What better way could he ingratiate himself with his master than with the heads of our men?

Achish answered David, “I'm convinced that you are as reliable as an angel of God. But the Philistine commanders have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.'

Many say about me,

“There is no help for him in God.”Selah

Many are asking, “Who can show us anything good? ”

Let the light of your face shine on us, LORD.

so is the person who deceives his neighbor

and says, “I was only joking! ”

Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say, and where did they come to you from? ”

Hezekiah replied, “They came to me from a distant country, from Babylon.”

When they say, “As the LORD lives,”

they are swearing falsely.

And I replied, “Oh no, Lord GOD! The prophets are telling them, ‘You won't see sword or suffer famine. I will certainly give you lasting peace in this place.' ”

“Therefore, this is what the LORD says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, though I did not send them, and who say, ‘There will never be sword or famine in this land.' By sword and famine these prophets will meet their end.

“They keep on saying to those who despise me, ‘The LORD has spoken: You will have peace.' They have said to everyone who follows the stubbornness of his heart, ‘No harm will come to you.' ”

“Son of man, notice that the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees concerns many years from now; he prophesies about distant times.'

“But the house of Israel says, ‘The Lord's way isn't fair.' Is it my ways that are unfair, house of Israel? Instead, isn't it your ways that are unfair?

Then I said, “Oh, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Isn't he just composing parables? ' ”

“Son of man, those who live in the[fn] ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one person, yet he received possession of the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.'

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.'

The Chaldeans answered the king, “No one on earth can make known what the king requests. Consequently, no king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, medium, or Chaldean.

While the words were still in the king's mouth, a voice came from heaven: “King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared that the kingdom has departed from you.

So they approached the king and asked about his edict: “Didn't you sign an edict that for thirty days any person who petitions any god or man except you, the king, will be thrown into the lions' den? ”

The king answered, “As a law of the Medes and Persians, the order stands[fn] and is irrevocable.”

Then these men went together to the king and said to him, “You know, Your Majesty, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or ordinance the king establishes can be changed.”

Now they continue to sin

and make themselves a cast image,

idols skillfully made from their silver,

all of them the work of craftsmen.

People say about them,

“Let the men who sacrifice[fn] kiss the calves.”

“The LORD of Armies says this: These people say: The time has not come for the house of the LORD to be rebuilt.”