Quotes About Youth

Then Abner said to Joab, “Let us have the young men get up and compete before us.” “Let them get up,” Joab replied.

So Abner told him, “Turn to your right or to your left, seize one of the young men, and take his equipment for yourself.” But Asahel would not stop chasing him.

But Hadad, still just a young boy, had fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites who were servants of his father.

But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ëYour father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.í This is what you should tell them: ëMy little finger is thicker than my fatherís waist!

From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”

Joash was seven years old when he became king.

Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His motherís name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.

and Zadok, a mighty young man of valor, with 22 commanders from his own family.

And David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent—famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore I must make preparations for it.” So David made lavish preparations before his death.

They cast lots for each gate, according to their families, young and old alike.

Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.

But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ëYour father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.í This is what you should tell them: ëMy little finger is thicker than my fatherís waist!

Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.

Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His motherís name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.