Quotes about Authority
And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
- 1 Samuel 2:36
The men of Beth-shemesh asked, “Who can stand in the presence of the LORD, this holy God? To whom should the ark go up from here?”
- 1 Samuel 6:20
When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.
- 1 Samuel 8:1
“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
- 1 Samuel 8:5
But when they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” their demand was displeasing in the sight of Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 8:6
And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
- 1 Samuel 8:7
Now listen to them, but you must solemnly warn them and show them the manner of the king who will reign over them.”
- 1 Samuel 8:9
So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
- 1 Samuel 8:10
He said, “This will be the manner of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them to his own chariots and horses, to run in front of his chariots.
- 1 Samuel 8:11
He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.
- 1 Samuel 8:12
He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.
- 1 Samuel 8:15
And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
- 1 Samuel 8:16