Quotes about Allegiance
Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you also go with us? Go back and stay with the new king, since you are both a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.
- 2 Samuel 15:19
But Ittai answered the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be!”
- 2 Samuel 15:21
David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.
- 2 Samuel 15:33
So the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly bow before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!”
- 2 Samuel 16:4
“Is this the loyalty you show your friend?” Absalom replied. “Why did you not go with your friend?”
- 2 Samuel 16:17
“Not at all,” Hushai answered. “For the one chosen by the LORD, by the people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and with him I will remain.
- 2 Samuel 16:18
Furthermore, whom should I serve if not the son? As I served in your father’s presence, so also I will serve in yours.”
- 2 Samuel 16:19
You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’
- 2 Samuel 19:12
One of Joab’s young men stood near Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!”
- 2 Samuel 20:11
saying, “Far be it from me, O LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.
- 2 Samuel 23:17
So why have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”
- 1 Kings 2:43
Then the king replied, “This woman says, ‘My son is alive and yours is dead,’ but that woman says, ‘No, your son is dead and mine is alive.’”
- 1 Kings 3:23