LXX Concordance for ἐλάλησαν

But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city.

So they approached Joseph's steward[fn] and spoke to him at the doorway of the house.

Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept,[fn] and afterward his brothers talked with him.

But when they told Jacob all that Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.

The family heads from the clan of the descendants of Gilead ​— ​the son of Machir, son of Manasseh ​— ​who were from the clans of the sons of Joseph, approached and addressed Moses and the leaders who were heads of the Israelite families.

“The LORD heard your[fn] words when you spoke to me. He said to me, ‘I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. Everything they have said is right.

“Then the LORD said to me, ‘They have spoken well.

They went to the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and told them,

The Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh answered the heads of the Israelite clans,

When the priest Phinehas and the community leaders, the heads of Israel's clans who were with him, heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were pleased.

The Israelites were pleased with the report, and they blessed God. They spoke no more about going to war against them to ravage the land where the Reubenites and Gadites lived.

His mother's relatives spoke all these words about him in the hearing of all the citizens of Shechem, and they were favorable to Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”

Then he went and spoke to the woman, because she seemed right to Samson.

The whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjaminites who were at Rimmon Rock.

Saul's servants reported these words directly to David, but he replied, “Is it trivial in your sight to become the king's son-in-law? I am a poor commoner.”

When David's servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David sent us to bring you to him as a wife.”

She said, “In the past they used to say, ‘Seek counsel in Abel,' and that's how they settled disputes.

“No,” the other woman said. “My son is the living one; your son is the dead one.”

The first woman said, “No, your son is the dead one; my son is the living one.” So they argued before the king.

They replied, “Today if you will be a servant to this people and serve them, and if you respond to them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

The young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us! ' This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's waist!

There were men passing by who saw the corpse thrown on the road and the lion standing beside it, and they went and spoke about it in the city where the old prophet lived.

But his servants approached and said to him, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more should you do it when he only tells you, ‘Wash and be clean'? ”

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

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

So the priest Hilkiah, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to the prophetess Huldah, wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem in the Second District. They spoke with her.

They replied, “If you will be kind to this people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

He asked them, “What message do you advise we send back to this people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us'? ”

The messenger who went to call Micaiah instructed him, “Look, the words of the prophets are unanimously favorable for the king. So let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”

His servants said more against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah.

So Hilkiah and those the king had designated[fn] went to the prophetess Huldah, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem in the Second District. They spoke with her about this.

The members of the royal staff at the King's Gate asked Mordecai, “Why are you disobeying the king's command? ”

Should I continue to wait now that they are silent,

now that they stand there and no longer answer?

They lie to one another;

they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.

Everyone who sees me mocks me;

they sneer[fn] and shake their heads:

Those who intend to kill me set traps,

and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;

they plot treachery all day long.

The wicked go astray from the womb;

liars wander about from birth.

They mock, and they speak maliciously;

they arrogantly threaten oppression.

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me;

they speak against me with lying tongues.

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

For the idols speak falsehood,

and the diviners see illusions;

they relate empty dreams

and offer empty comfort.

Therefore the people wander like sheep;

they suffer affliction because there is no shepherd.