Quotes about Authority
Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
— Judges 1:7
But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” “Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants left him.
— Judges 3:19
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
— Judges 4:4
Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you and your son and grandson—for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”
— Judges 8:22
But Gideon replied, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son. The LORD shall rule over you.”
— Judges 8:23
Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo gathered beside the oak at the pillar in Shechem and proceeded to make Abimelech their king.
— Judges 9:6
One day the trees set out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
— Judges 9:8
But the olive tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my oil that honors both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’
— Judges 9:9
Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’
— Judges 9:10
But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?’
— Judges 9:11
Then the trees said to the grapevine, ‘Come and reign over us.’
— Judges 9:12
Finally all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘Come and reign over us.’
— Judges 9:14