Quotes about Loyalty
So Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the sons of the king have arrived! It is just as your servant said.”
- 2 Samuel 13:35
After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.
- 2 Samuel 13:38
The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
- 2 Samuel 14:13
The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
- 2 Samuel 14:13
So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 14:23
Then he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.
- 2 Samuel 14:29
Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.”
- 2 Samuel 15:3
Also, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.
- 2 Samuel 15:5
Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 15:6
Two hundred men from Jerusalem accompanied Absalom. They had been invited as guests and they went along innocently, for they knew nothing about the matter.
- 2 Samuel 15:11
Then a messenger came to David and reported, “The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.”
- 2 Samuel 15:13
The king’s servants replied, “Whatever our lord the king decides, we are your servants.”
- 2 Samuel 15:15