Quotes about King
So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”
— 2 Samuel 24:2
But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
— 2 Samuel 24:3
And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.
— 2 Samuel 24:9
When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.
— 2 Samuel 24:20
“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
— 2 Samuel 24:21
O king, Araunah gives all these to the king.” He also said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”
— 2 Samuel 24:23
Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.
— 1 Kings 1:1
So his servants said to him, “Let us search for a young virgin for our lord the king, to attend to him and care for him and lie by his side to keep him warm.”
— 1 Kings 1:2
Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.
— 1 Kings 1:3
The girl was unsurpassed in beauty; she cared for the king and served him, but he had no relations with her.
— 1 Kings 1:4
At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him.
— 1 Kings 1:5
Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it?
— 1 Kings 1:11