Quotes about God
And Saul asked him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him so that he could rise up against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”
— 1 Samuel 22:13
Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant knew nothing of this whole affair—not in part or in whole.”
— 1 Samuel 22:15
When Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”
— 1 Samuel 23:7
Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O LORD, God of Israel, please tell Your servant.” “He will,” said the LORD.
— 1 Samuel 23:11
And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
— 1 Samuel 23:14
May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD take vengeance on you, but my hand will never be against you.
— 1 Samuel 24:12
May the LORD be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand.”
— 1 Samuel 24:15
May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one of Nabal’s men survive until morning.”
— 1 Samuel 25:22
And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
— 1 Samuel 25:29
Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me this day!
— 1 Samuel 25:32
Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”
— 1 Samuel 25:34
Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”
— 1 Samuel 26:8