Quotes about Loyal
He sent out the troops, a third under Joab, a third under Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the troops, “I will surely march out with you as well.”
— 2 Samuel 18:2
And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
— 2 Samuel 19:13
He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.
— 1 Samuel 20:25
He said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” And as the boy ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.
— 1 Samuel 20:36
When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.
— 1 Samuel 20:19
And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
— John 15:27
Keep in mind ... to a dog you are family to a cat you are staff.
— Anonymous
The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’
— 2 Samuel 18:12
And from that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return to his father’s house.
— 1 Samuel 18:2
The king’s servants replied, “Whatever our lord the king decides, we are your servants.”
— 2 Samuel 15:15
Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, I and my son Solomon will be counted as criminals.”
— 1 Kings 1:21
We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.
— Mark Twain