Quotes about Justice

But Naboth replied, “The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”

So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.

They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people.

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.’”

When the king asked the woman, she confirmed it. So the king appointed for her an officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, along with all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the country until now.”

‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”

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

Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”

He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth.

He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:

Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:

When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,