Quotes about Leadership
So Gideon told the men of Penuel, “When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower!”
- Judges 8:9
So he said to Jether, his firstborn, “Get up and kill them.” But the young man did not draw his sword; he was fearful because he was still a youth.
- Judges 8:20
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Get up and kill us yourself, for as the man is, so is his strength.” So Gideon got up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments from the necks of their camels.
- Judges 8:21
Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you and your son and grandson—for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”
- Judges 8:22
But Gideon replied, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son. The LORD shall rule over you.”
- Judges 8:23
Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
- Judges 8:30
Later, Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
- Judges 8:32
Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,
- Judges 9:1
He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.
- Judges 9:5
One day the trees set out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
- Judges 9:8
Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’
- Judges 9:10
But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?’
- Judges 9:11