Quotes About Servant

so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ëThe LORD of Hosts is God over Israel.í And the house of Your servant David will be established before You.

For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ëI will build a house for you.í Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.

And now, O Lord GOD, You are God! Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant.

Now therefore, may it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with Your blessing the house of Your servant will be blessed forever.”

And there was a servant of Saulís family named Ziba. They summoned him to David, and the king inquired, “Are you Ziba?” “I am your servant,” he replied.

Then the king summoned Saulís servant Ziba and said to him, “I have given to your masterís grandson all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.

And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”

Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ëI will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.

And now your servant says, ëMay the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.í”

So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.

Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”

But you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me if you return to the city and say to Absalom: ëI will be your servant, my king; in the past I was your fatherís servant, but now I will be your servant.í

When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And Ahimaaz replied, “When Joab sent the kingís servant and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was.”

and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servantís wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.

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.

Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”

When he had come near to her, the woman asked, “Are you Joab?” “I am,” he replied. “Listen to the words of your servant,” she said. “I am listening,” he answered.

“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.”

And he has sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the other sons of the king, as well as Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army. But he did not invite your servant Solomon.

But me your servant he did not invite, nor Zadok the priest, nor Benaiah son of Jehoiada, nor your servant Solomon.

Has my lord the king let this happen without informing your servant who should sit on the throne after my lord the king?”

It was reported to Solomon: “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon, and he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ëLet King Solomon first swear to me not to put his servant to the sword.í”

“The sentence is fair,” Shimei replied. “Your servant will do as my lord the king has spoken.” And Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.