Quotes about Influence

But Absalom urged him, so the king sent Amnon and the rest of his sons.

Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.

So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.

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.

So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”

The whole world sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.

He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.

But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

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

(Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.

And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one suggested this, and another that.