Quotes about Community

Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

Ahiezer their chief and Joash, who were the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;

Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite;

Other Benjamites and some men from Judah also came to David in his stronghold.

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!”