Quotes About Decision

At that time Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants sail with your servants,” but Jehoshaphat refused.

When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned?”

When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didnít I tell you not to go?”

Then he asked, “Which way shall we go up?” “By way of the Desert of Edom,” replied Joram.

And when the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”

Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?

If we say, ëLet us go into the city,í we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”

But one of his servants replied, “Please, have scouts take five of the horses that remain in the city. Their plight will be no worse than all the Israelites who are left here. You can see that all the Israelites here are doomed. So let us send them and find out.”

Then the scouts took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, “Go and see.”

and when he arrived, the army commanders were sitting there. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said. “For which of us?” asked Jehu. “For you, commander,” he replied.

He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.

So the palace administrator, the overseer of the city, the elders, and the guardians sent a message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do whatever you say. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your sight.”

Then David conferred with all his leaders, the commanders of hundreds and of thousands.

And because this proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to it.

But Joab replied, “May the LORD multiply His troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all servants of my lord? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”

Nevertheless, the kingís word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and traveled throughout Israel, and then he returned to Jerusalem.

“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ëI am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.í”

So Gad went and said to David, “This is what the LORD says: ëYou must choose

between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.í Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

The lot for the East Gate fell to Shelemiah. Then lots were cast for his son Zechariah, a wise counselor, and the lot for the North Gate fell to him.

So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.

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