Quotes about Loyalty
Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
— 2 Samuel 19:32
The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”
— 2 Samuel 19:33
But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
— 2 Samuel 19:34
Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?
— 2 Samuel 19:36
Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham crossed over with him. All the troops of Judah and half the troops of Israel escorted the king.
— 2 Samuel 19:40
Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”
— 2 Samuel 19:41
So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba son of Bichri. But the men of Judah stayed by their king all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
— 2 Samuel 20:2
Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
— 2 Samuel 20:4
So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he took longer than the time allotted him.
— 2 Samuel 20:5
One of Joab’s young men stood near Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!”
— 2 Samuel 20:11
and Ira the Jairite was David’s priest.
— 2 Samuel 20:26
Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.
— 2 Samuel 21:7