Quotes about Loyalty
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 they cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and Ashtoreths. Now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, that we may serve You.’
- 1 Samuel 12:10
Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.
- 1 Samuel 12:22
“What have you done?” Samuel asked. And Saul replied, “When I saw that the troops were deserting me, and that you did not come at the appointed time and the Philistines were gathering at Michmash,
- 1 Samuel 13:11
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
His armor-bearer replied, “Do all that is in your heart. Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul.”
- 1 Samuel 14:7
So Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his armor-bearer behind him. And the Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer followed and finished them off.
- 1 Samuel 14:13
In that first assault, Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck down about twenty men over half an acre of land.
- 1 Samuel 14:14
Saul said to the troops who were with him, “Call the roll and see who has left us.” And when they had called the roll, they saw that Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there.
- 1 Samuel 14:17
As surely as the LORD who saves Israel lives, even if it is my son Jonathan, he must die!” But not one of the troops said a word.
- 1 Samuel 14:39
Then Saul said to all Israel, “You stand on one side, and I and my son Jonathan will stand on the other side.” “Do what seems good to you,” the troops replied.
- 1 Samuel 14:40
When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”
- 1 Samuel 15:13