Quotes about Authority
And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
— 1 Samuel 8:16
He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
— 1 Samuel 8:17
When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”
— 1 Samuel 8:18
Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.
— 1 Samuel 8:19
Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”
— 1 Samuel 8:20
“Listen to their voice,” the LORD said to Samuel. “Appoint a king for them.” Then Samuel told the men of Israel, “Everyone must go back to his city.”
— 1 Samuel 8:22
When these signs have come, do as the occasion demands, for God is with you.
— 1 Samuel 10:7
And when Saul had finished prophesying, he went up to the high place.
— 1 Samuel 10:13
But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”
— 1 Samuel 10:19
Then Samuel explained to the people the rights of kingship. He wrote them on a scroll and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, each to his own home.
— 1 Samuel 10:25
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