Quotes about Obedience
For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”
— 1 Kings 13:17
but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.
— 1 Kings 13:19
but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.’”
— 1 Kings 13:22
And after the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet who had brought him back saddled the donkey for him.
— 1 Kings 13:23
After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,
— 1 Kings 13:31
Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel.
— 1 Kings 14:7
I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.
— 1 Kings 14:8
For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
— 1 Kings 15:5
And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done.
— 1 Kings 15:11
The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.
— 1 Kings 15:14
As soon as Baasha became king, he struck down the entire household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone that breathed, but destroyed them all according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
— 1 Kings 15:29
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
— 1 Kings 17:1