2 Samuel 14:3
And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 23:5And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.
2 Samuel 14:19And the king said: Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? The woman answered, and said: By the health of thy soul, my lord, O king, it is neither on the left hand, nor on the right, in all these things which my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he commanded me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy handmaid.
Isaiah 51:16I have put my words in thy mouth, and have protected thee in the shadow of my hand, that thou mightest plant the heavens, and found the earth: and mightest say to Sion: Thou art my people.
Jeremiah 1:9And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 14:2-21
Joab's Stratagem in Absalom's Favour; The Art of Joab. ( b. c. 1029.) 1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom. 2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead: 3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth. 4 And when the woman… Read the whole commentary →