Quotes about King
And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”
— 2 Samuel 19:22
So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king swore an oath to him.
— 2 Samuel 19:23
And he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, who asked him, “Mephibosheth, why did you not go with me?”
— 2 Samuel 19:25
“My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me,
— 2 Samuel 19:26
and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
— 2 Samuel 19:27
The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”
— 2 Samuel 19:29
And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”
— 2 Samuel 19:30
Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim to cross the Jordan with the king and send him on his way from there.
— 2 Samuel 19:31
Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
— 2 Samuel 19:32
The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”
— 2 Samuel 19:33
But Barzillai replied, “How many years of my life remain, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
— 2 Samuel 19:34
Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?
— 2 Samuel 19:36