Quotes about Responsibility

So the prophet said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” Then they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it

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

But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”

“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”

As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”

and when he arrived, the army commanders were sitting there. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said. “For which of us?” asked Jehu. “For you, commander,” he replied.

No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.

“Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”

Their fellow Levites were assigned to every kind of service of the tabernacle, the house of God.

In earlier times Phinehas son of Eleazar had been in charge of the gatekeepers, and the LORD was with him.

But the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of the house of God.