³ Go to the king and speak thus to him.” So Joab ^(A)put the words in her mouth.

¹⁹ The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, ^(A)“As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me; ^(B)it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant.

^15 (A)You shall speak to him and ^(B)put the words in his mouth, and ^(C)I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do.

^9 (A)Then the Lord put out his hand and ^(B)touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me,

²¹ “And as for me, ^(A)this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit that is upon you, ^(B)and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring,” says the Lord, “from this time forth and forevermore.”

^18 (A)I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. ^(B)And I will put my words in his mouth, and ^(C)he shall speak to them all that I command him.

⁵ And the Lord ^(A)put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”