Quotes about Loyalty

But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”

and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”

He commanded them, saying, “You must serve faithfully and wholeheartedly in the fear of the LORD.

In the days of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against the hand of Judah and appointed their own king.

But Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she could not kill him.

And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

After the death of Jehoiada, however, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them.

Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.

As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.

As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.

When Amaziah returned from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the Seirites, set them up as his own gods, bowed before them, and burned sacrifices to them.