Quotes about Community

including Jehoiada, leader of the house of Aaron, with 3,700 men,

They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them.

And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

from the Gershomites, Joel the chief and 130 of his relatives;

and from the Uzzielites, Amminadab the chief and 112 of his relatives.

Then he distributed to every man and woman of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.” Then all the people said, “Amen!” and “Praise the LORD!”

Then he gathered all the leaders of Israel, as well as the priests and Levites.

And the people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given to the LORD freely and wholeheartedly. And King David also rejoiced greatly.

When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark,

And as the whole assembly of Israel stood there, the king turned around and blessed them all