Quotes about Authority
Then Saul recognized David’s voice and asked, “Is that your voice, David my son?” “It is my voice, my lord and king,” David said.
- 1 Samuel 26:17
“Here is the king’s spear,” David answered. “Let one of the young men come over and get it.
- 1 Samuel 26:22
Saul refused, saying, “I will not eat.” But his servants joined the woman in urging him, and he heeded their voice. He got up from the ground and sat on the bed.
- 1 Samuel 28:23
So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”
- 2 Samuel 1:14
Then David summoned one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him!” So the young man struck him down, and he died.
- 2 Samuel 1:15
Now then, be strong and courageous, for though Saul your lord is dead, the house of Judah has anointed me as their king.”
- 2 Samuel 2:7
and made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin—over all Israel.
- 2 Samuel 2:9
Then Abner said to Joab, “Let us have the young men get up and compete before us.” “Let them get up,” Joab replied.
- 2 Samuel 2:14
And for fear of Abner, Ish-bosheth did not dare to say another word to him.
- 2 Samuel 3:11
Now Abner conferred with the elders of Israel and said, “In the past you sought David as your king.
- 2 Samuel 3:17
So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.
- 2 Samuel 4:12
David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.
- 2 Samuel 5:4