Quotes about Leadership
But some worthless men said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him and brought him no gifts; but Saul remained silent about it.
- 1 Samuel 10:27
“Hold off for seven days,” replied the elders of Jabesh, “and let us send messengers throughout Israel. If there is no one to save us, we will surrender to you.”
- 1 Samuel 11:3
Then the people said to Samuel, “Who said that Saul should not reign over us? Bring those men here so we can kill them!”
- 1 Samuel 11:12
Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingship there.”
- 1 Samuel 11:14
Then Samuel said to all Israel, “I have listened to your voice in all that you have said to me, and I have set over you a king.
- 1 Samuel 12:1
Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.
- 1 Samuel 12:2
Then Samuel said to the people, “The LORD is the One who appointed Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 12:6
But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king to rule over us’—even though the LORD your God was your king.
- 1 Samuel 12:12
Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you requested. Behold, the LORD has placed a king over you.
- 1 Samuel 12:13
But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
- 1 Samuel 12:25
Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.
- 1 Samuel 13:1
One day Jonathan son of Saul said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the Philistine outpost on the other side.” But Jonathan did not tell his father.
- 1 Samuel 14:1