Quotes About Response

When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” “You know his kind and their babble,” he replied.

So a horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king asks: ëHave you come in peace?í” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”

So the king sent out a second horseman, who went to them and said, “This is what the king asks: ëHave you come in peace?í” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.”

Then they called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebnah the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to them.

Then Hilkiahís son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaphís son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”

And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.

At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.

And the people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given to the LORD freely and wholeheartedly. And King David also rejoiced greatly.

Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.

He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ëLighten the yoke your father put on usí?”

The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ëYour father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.í This is what you should tell them: ëMy little finger is thicker than my fatherís waist!

When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned his work.

And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people scorned and mocked them.

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to the LORD, who spoke to him and gave him a sign.

The letter you sent us has been translated and read in my presence.

In response, Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates diligently carried out what King Darius had decreed.

And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: “Truly we must do as you say!

Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.

Then I sent him this reply: “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”

So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.

Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the kingís eunuchs appointed to her, and she dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what was troubling him and why.