"Did Joab put you up to this?" he asked her. She answered, "I swear by all that is sacred, Your Majesty, that there is no way to avoid answering your question. It was indeed your officer Joab who told me what to do and what to say.

You can speak to him and tell him what to say. I will help both of you to speak, and I will tell you both what to do.

The LORD told Balaam what to say and sent him back to Balak to give him his message.

I will send them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will tell him what to say, and he will tell the people everything I command.

I stretched out the heavens and laid the earth's foundations; I say to Jerusalem, 'You are my people! I have given you my teaching, and I protect you with my hand.' "

And I make a covenant with you: I have given you my power and my teachings to be yours forever, and from now on you are to obey me and teach your children and your descendants to obey me for all time to come."

Then the LORD reached out, touched my lips, and said to me, "Listen, I am giving you the words you must speak.