Quotes about Leadership
After Ibzan, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel ten years.
- Judges 12:11
After Elon, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, judged Israel.
- Judges 12:13
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.
- Judges 12:14
And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
- Judges 15:20
Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.
- Judges 16:31
“Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”
- Judges 18:19
Putting their small children, their livestock, and their possessions in front of them, they turned and departed.
- Judges 18:21
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
- Judges 21:25
Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- 1 Samuel 2:22
Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD on your behalf.”
- 1 Samuel 7:5
So Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
- 1 Samuel 7:15
Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.
- 1 Samuel 7:16