Quotes about Loyalty
“Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
- 2 Samuel 11:12
Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.
- 2 Samuel 11:13
The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
- 2 Samuel 11:14
In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”
- 2 Samuel 11:15
So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he saw the strongest enemy soldiers.
- 2 Samuel 11:16
So the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.
- 2 Samuel 11:22
but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
- 2 Samuel 12:3
Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 13:20
When King David heard all this, he was furious.
- 2 Samuel 13:21
“If not,” said Absalom, “please let my brother Amnon go with us.” “Why should he go with you?” the king asked.
- 2 Samuel 13:26
But Absalom urged him, so the king sent Amnon and the rest of his sons.
- 2 Samuel 13:27
Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
- 2 Samuel 13:28