Quotes about Authority
But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” “Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants left him.
- Judges 3:19
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
- Judges 4:4
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
Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo gathered beside the oak at the pillar in Shechem and proceeded to make Abimelech their king.
- Judges 9:6
One day the trees set out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
- Judges 9:8
But the olive tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my oil that honors both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’
- Judges 9:9
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
Then the trees said to the grapevine, ‘Come and reign over us.’
- Judges 9:12
Finally all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘Come and reign over us.’
- Judges 9:14
But the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’
- Judges 9:15