Quotes about Community
And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.
— 1 Samuel 22:2
Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.
— 1 Samuel 25:15
because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.
— 2 Samuel 4:3
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.
— 2 Samuel 5:1
Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home.
— 2 Samuel 6:19
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.”
— 2 Samuel 19:14
a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here so that I may speak with him.”
— 2 Samuel 20:16
Then the woman said, “Long ago they used to say, ‘Seek counsel at Abel,’ and that is how disputes were settled.
— 2 Samuel 20:18
All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.
— 1 Kings 1:40
Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
— 1 Kings 3:8
So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
— 1 Kings 8:65
They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people.
— 1 Kings 21:12