Quotes about Justice
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
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
The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”
- 2 Samuel 16:8
Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
- 2 Samuel 16:12