Quotes About Caution

with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.

They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.

But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”

So they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards

And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.

Therefore Saul said, “Come here, all you leaders of the troops, and let us investigate how this sin has occurred today.

so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.

When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.

I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.

Then I will send a boy and say, ëGo, find the arrows!í Now, if I expressly say to him, ëLook, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,í then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.

Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”

and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

David sent out spies to verify that Saul had arrived.

But the woman replied, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why have you set a trap to get me killed?”

Surely you realize that Abner son of Ner came to deceive you and to track your movements and all that you are doing.”

if the kingís anger flares, he may ask you, ëWhy did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?

Now send quickly and tell David, ëDo not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over. Otherwise the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.í”

The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”

Now please, come and let me advise you. Save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.

King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ëYou must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.í”

But the man replied, “I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.

And the elders and the people all said, “Do not listen to him or consent to his terms.”