Quotes about Obedience
Then Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. He cried out to the LORD on behalf of Israel, and the LORD answered him.
— 1 Samuel 7:9
“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
— 1 Samuel 8:5
And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
— 1 Samuel 8:7
So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
— 1 Samuel 8:10
And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
— 1 Samuel 8:16
Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.
— 1 Samuel 8:19
Samuel listened to all the words of the people and repeated them in the hearing of the LORD.
— 1 Samuel 8:21
“Listen to their voice,” the LORD said to Samuel. “Appoint a king for them.” Then Samuel told the men of Israel, “Everyone must go back to his city.”
— 1 Samuel 8:22
“Good,” said Saul to his servant. “Come, let us go.” So they set out for the city where the man of God was.
— 1 Samuel 9:10
And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion I gave you and told you to set aside.”
— 1 Samuel 9:23
They got up early in the morning, and just before dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way!” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went outside together.
— 1 Samuel 9:26
As they were going down to the edge of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us, but you stay for a while, and I will reveal to you the word of God.” So the servant went on.
— 1 Samuel 9:27