Quotes About Obedience

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”

So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.

“Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.

So the prophet said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” Then they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it

So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”

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

For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ëYou must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.í”

Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ëBring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.í” The old prophet was lying to him,

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

While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,

and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ëBecause you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,

but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.í”

And after the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet who had brought him back saddled the donkey for him.

As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

Then the old prophet instructed his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled it,

I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.

And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.

For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done.

He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

The high places were not removed, but Asaís heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying:

Then a revelation from the LORD came to Elijah:

“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.