Quotes about Responsibility

When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”

“Listen to their voice,” the LORD said to Samuel. “Appoint a king for them.” Then Samuel told the men of Israel, “Everyone must go back to his city.”

But if you disobey the LORD and rebel against His command, then the hand of the LORD will be against you as it was against your fathers.

But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

“What have you done?” Samuel asked. And Saul replied, “When I saw that the troops were deserting me, and that you did not come at the appointed time and the Philistines were gathering at Michmash,

So Saul said to the LORD, the God of Israel, “Why have You not answered Your servant this day? If the fault is with me or my son Jonathan, respond with Urim; but if the fault is with the men of Israel, respond with Thummim.” And Jonathan and Saul were selected, but the people were cleared of the charge.

Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying,

When David came to Saul and entered his service, Saul admired him greatly, and David became his armor-bearer.

but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,

But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.

Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the boy and said, “Go, take it back to the city.”