Quotes about Authority
Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.”
- Deuteronomy 1:13
So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your tribes.
- Deuteronomy 1:15
And at that time I commanded you all the things you were to do.
- Deuteronomy 1:18
So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country.
- Deuteronomy 1:43
This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”
- Deuteronomy 2:25
He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
- Deuteronomy 7:24
Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
- Deuteronomy 11:24
Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.
- Deuteronomy 12:3
You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.
- Deuteronomy 12:8
Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
- Deuteronomy 13:9
Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.
- Deuteronomy 13:11
you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.
- Deuteronomy 17:5