Quotes About Power

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”

You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”

I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ëBe careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.í

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.

When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.

Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.

You shall be in charge of my house, and all my people are to obey your commands. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”

Pharaoh also told Joseph, “I hereby place you over all the land of Egypt.”

Then Pharaoh removed the signet ring from his finger, put it on Josephís finger, clothed him in garments of fine linen, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, with men calling out before him, “Bow the knee!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of Egypt shall lift his hand or foot.”

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaohís,

and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.

Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.

Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.

Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”

“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”