2 Samuel 14:3
Good News Translation
Then go to the king and say to him what I tell you to say." Then Joab told her what to say.

New Revised Standard Version
Go to the king and speak to him as follows.” And Joab put the words into her mouth.

New American Bible
Then go to the king and speak to him in this manner.” And Joab told her what to say.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.

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2 Samuel 14:19 And 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.

Exodus 4:15 Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his month, and will shew you what you must do.

Numbers 23:5 And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Isaiah 51:16 I 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.

Isaiah 59:21 This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Jeremiah 1:9 And 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:

Context
Absalom's Return to Jerusalem
2Sent to Thecua, and fetched from thence a wise woman: and said to her: Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, and be not anointed with oil, that thou mayest be as a woman that had a long time been mourning for one dead. 3And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.4And when the woman of Thecua was come in to the king, she fell before him upon the ground, and worshipped, and said: Save me, O king.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:19
And 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.

2 Samuel 14:4
And when the woman of Thecua was come in to the king, she fell before him upon the ground, and worshipped, and said: Save me, O king.

2 Samuel 14:2
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