Quotes about Justice
Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:
— 2 Samuel 8:15
David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
— 2 Samuel 12:5
Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”
— 2 Samuel 12:6
Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
— 2 Samuel 13:13
When King David heard all this, he was furious.
— 2 Samuel 13:21
And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
— 2 Samuel 14:6
“Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”
— 2 Samuel 14:8
But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
— 2 Samuel 14:9
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
Then Joab came to Absalom’s house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”
— 2 Samuel 14:31
Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.”
— 2 Samuel 15:3
And he would add, “If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice.”
— 2 Samuel 15:4