Quotes About Obedience

Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.

Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ëI will never break My covenant with you,

and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.í Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?

So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

And the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.

Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORDís commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.

I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.

In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”

That is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.

These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.

“Follow me,” he told them, “for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they followed him down and seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross over.

She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ëGo and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.

Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”

Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

And I said to you: ëI am the LORD your God. You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.í But you did not obey Me.”

The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?”

So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.

And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so.

On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your fatherís young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your fatherís altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.”

So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his fatherís household and the men of the city, he did it by night rather than in the daytime.

Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baalís altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”