Quotes about Leadership
When King David heard all this, he was furious.
- 2 Samuel 13:21
“No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.
- 2 Samuel 13:25
Then the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
- 2 Samuel 13:31
The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
- 2 Samuel 14:13
So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 14:23
Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.
- 2 Samuel 15:1
Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.”
- 2 Samuel 15:3
And he would add, “If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice.”
- 2 Samuel 15:4
Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 15:6
Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.
- 2 Samuel 15:16
So the king set out with all the people following him. He stopped at the last house,
- 2 Samuel 15:17
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