Quotes about King
Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.
— 1 Samuel 12:2
But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king to rule over us’—even though the LORD your God was your king.
— 1 Samuel 12:12
Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you requested. Behold, the LORD has placed a king over you.
— 1 Samuel 12:13
If you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and if you do not rebel against the command of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you follow the LORD your God, then all will be well.
— 1 Samuel 12:14
Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.”
— 1 Samuel 12:17
They pleaded with Samuel, “Pray to the LORD your God for your servants so that we will not die! For we have added to all our sins the evil of asking for a king.”
— 1 Samuel 12:19
Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.
— 1 Samuel 13:1
Then Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you king over His people Israel. Now therefore, listen to the words of the LORD.
— 1 Samuel 15:1
He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
— 1 Samuel 15:8
“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.
— 1 Samuel 15:11
Early in the morning Samuel got up to confront Saul, but he was told, “Saul has gone to Carmel, and behold, he has set up a monument for himself and has turned and gone down to Gilgal.”
— 1 Samuel 15:12
And Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, have you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel
— 1 Samuel 15:17