Quotes About Service

“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my fatherís house.”

But Gideon replied, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son. The LORD shall rule over you.”

But the olive tree replied, ëShould I stop giving my oil that honors both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?í

But the fig tree replied, ëShould I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?í

Then Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? You are to serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem. Why should we serve Abimelech?

Tola judged Israel twenty-three years, and when he died, he was buried in Shamir.

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.

“Stay with me,” Micah said to him, “and be my father and priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your provisions.” So the Levite went in

Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.

“Micah has done this and that for me,” he replied, “and he has hired me to be his priest.”

“Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”

even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”

So he brought him to his house and fed his donkeys. And they washed their feet and ate and drank.

“I will do everything you say,” Ruth answered.

Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eliís two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.

And when they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli.

I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.” So they worshiped the LORD there.

Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.

or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling

Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”

Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD—a boy wearing a linen ephod.

Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.

And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with man.

Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.