'Silence' in the Bible

But he himself turned back at the sculptured stones near Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence.

Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:

Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ...

{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, if thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.

Thou hast seen it, Jehovah: keep not silence; O Lord, be not far from me.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David: a Song.} Praise waiteth for thee in silence, O God, in Zion; and unto thee shall the vow be performed.

{A Song; a Psalm of Asaph.} O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God:

If Jehovah had not been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

The dead praise not Jah, neither any that go down into silence;

A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Keep silence before me, islands; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us draw near together to judgment.

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, Jerusalem; all the day and all the night they shall never hold their peace: ye that put Jehovah in remembrance, keep not silence,

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced cities, and let us be silent there: for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast dust upon their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their head to the ground.

It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.

He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;

Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead; bind thy turban upon thee, and put thy sandals upon thy feet, and cover not the beard, and eat not the bread of men.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in this time; for it is an evil time.

And a man's uncle, and he that should burn him, shall take him up to bring out the bones from the house, and shall say unto him that is in the inner parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, None. And he will say, Silence! for we may not make mention of Jehovah's name.

And the songs of the palace shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast forth. Silence!

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on mischief: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and keepest silence when the wicked swalloweth up a man more righteous than he?

But Jehovah is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him!

But the Pharisees, having heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, were gathered together.

And awaking up he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Silence; be mute. And the wind fell, and there was a great calm.

And as the voice was heard Jesus was found alone: and they kept silence, and told no one in those days any of the things they had seen.

And all the multitude kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which God had wrought among the nations by them.

And when he had allowed him, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people; and a great silence having been made, he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, as to which silence has been kept in the times of the ages,

Because so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of senseless men;

And when it opened the seventh seal, there was silence in the heaven about half an hour.