In their own words — 2791 recorded sayings
The recorded words of the people of scripture. Search by speaker or by what they said.
“Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves. But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God. Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 5:7-9
“But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord. Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks. Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 5:17-19
“Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Make prayer to the Lord that he will take away these frogs from me and my people; and I will let the people go and make their offering to the Lord.”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 8:8
“And he said, By tomorrow. And he said, Let it be as you say: so that you may see that there is no other like the Lord our God.”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 8:10
“And Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and make your offering to your God here in the land.”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 8:25
“Then Pharaoh said, I will let you go to make an offering to the Lord your God in the waste land; but do not go very far away, and make prayer for me.”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 8:28
“Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have done evil this time: the Lord is upright, and I and my people are sinners. Make prayer to the Lord; for there has been enough of these thunderings of God and this ice-storm; and I will let you go and will keep you no longer.”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 9:27-28
“Then Moses and Aaron came in again before Pharaoh: and he said to them, Go and give worship to the Lord your God: but which of you are going?”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 10:8
“And he said to them, May the Lord be with you, if I will let you and your little ones go! take care, for your purpose clearly is evil. Not so; but let your males go and give worship to the Lord, as your desire is. This he said, driving them out from before him.”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 10:10-11
“Then Pharaoh quickly sent for Moses and Aaron, and said, I have done evil against the Lord your God and against you. Let me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only, and make prayer to the Lord your God that he will take away from me this death only.”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 10:16-17
“Then Pharaoh sent for Moses, and said, Go and give worship to the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be kept here: your little ones may go with you.”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 10:24
“And Pharaoh said to him, Go away from me, take care that you come not again before me; for the day when you see my face again will be your last.”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 10:28
“And he sent for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up and go out from among my people, you and the children of Israel; go and give worship to the Lord as you have said. And take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be gone; and give me your blessing.”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 12:31-32
“And word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people: and the feeling of Pharaoh and of his servants about the people was changed, and they said, Why have we let Israel go, so that they will do no more work for us?”— Pharaoh (Exo 1:11), Exodus 14:5
“Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife? Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.”— Pharaoh (Gen 12:15), Genesis 12:18-19
“And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.”— Pharaoh (Gen 12:15), Genesis 41:15
“Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile: And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass; Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt; And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first; And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep. And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem: And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east…”— Pharaoh (Gen 12:15), Genesis 41:17-24
“Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God? And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you: You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you. And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt.”— Pharaoh (Gen 12:15), Genesis 41:38-41
“Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.”— Pharaoh (Gen 12:15), Genesis 41:44
“And when all the land of Egypt was in need of food, the people came crying to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to the people, Go to Joseph, and whatever he says to you, do it.”— Pharaoh (Gen 12:15), Genesis 41:55
“And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Put your goods on your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan; And get your father and your families and come back to me: and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, and the fat of the land will be your food. And say to them, This you are to do: take carts from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and get your father and come back. And take no thought for your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.”— Pharaoh (Gen 12:15), Genesis 45:17-20
“And Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they said, Your servants are keepers of sheep, as our fathers were before us.”— Pharaoh (Gen 12:15), Genesis 47:3
“And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Let them have the land of Goshen; and if there are any able men among them, put them over my cattle. And Jacob and his sons came to Joseph in Egypt, and when word of it came to the ears of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, he said to Joseph, Your father and brothers have come to you; all the land of Egypt is before you; let your father and your brothers have the best of the land for their resting-place.”— Pharaoh (Gen 12:15), Genesis 47:5-6
“And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you?”— Pharaoh (Gen 12:15), Genesis 47:8
“And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him.”— Pharaoh (Gen 12:15), Genesis 50:6
“And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope? You say you have a design, and strength for war, but these are only words. Now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority? See, now, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go through a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him. And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places…”— Rabshakeh, 2 Kings 18:19-25
“But the Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in. Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria; This is what the king says: Do not be tricked by Hezekiah, for there is no salvation for you in him. And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and…”— Rabshakeh, 2 Kings 18:27-35
“This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria. No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse; and will you be kept safe? Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena…”— Rabshakeh, 2 Kings 19:10-13
“Sennacherib, king of Assyria, says, In what are you placing your hope, waiting here in the walled town of Jerusalem? Is it not Hezekiah who has got you to do it, causing your death from need of food and water, by saying, The Lord our God will give us salvation out of the hands of the king of Assyria? Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Give worship before one altar only, burning offerings on it? Have you no knowledge of what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of every land? were the gods of the nations of those lands…”— Rabshakeh, 2 Chronicles 32:10-15
“And he sent letters, in addition, to put shame on the Lord, the God of Israel, and to say evil against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not been able to keep their people safe from my hands, no more will the God of Hezekiah keep his people safe from my hands.”— Rabshakeh, 2 Chronicles 32:17
“And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope? You say you have a design and strength for war, but these are only words: now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority? See, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go into a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him. And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is it not he whose high places and altars…”— Rabshakeh, Isaiah 36:4-10
“But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in. Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: This is what the king says: Do not be tricked by Hezekiah, for there is no salvation for you in him. And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town…”— Rabshakeh, Isaiah 36:12-20
“This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria. No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate? Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of…”— Rabshakeh, Isaiah 37:10-13
“And they took the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, and said to the king, Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul your hater, who would have taken your life; the Lord has taken payment for the wrongs of my lord the king from Saul and his seed today.”— Rechab (2Sa 4:2), 2 Samuel 4:8
“We give news to the king that the Jews who came from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are building up again that uncontrolled and evil town; the walls are complete and they are joining up the bases. The king may be certain that when the building of this town and its walls is complete, they will give no tax or payment in goods or forced payments, and in the end it will be a cause of loss to the kings. Now because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honour damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things, So that search may be made in…”— Rehum (Ezr 4:8), Ezra 4:12-16
“And after reading them, say, O Lord, you have said about this place that it is to be cut off, so that no one will be living in it, not a man or a beast, but it will be unpeopled for ever.”— Seraiah (Jer 36:26), Jeremiah 51:62
“Then the king of Assyria gave orders, saying, Send there one of the priests whom you took away, and let him be living there and teaching the people the way of the god of the land.”— Shalmaneser, 2 Kings 17:27
“And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?”— Sharezer (Zec 7:2), Zechariah 7:3
“And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question. Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law. Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.”— Shecaniah (Ezr 8:3), Ezra 10:2-4
“And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.”— Shechem (Gen 33:19), Genesis 34:4
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