Quotes About Service

Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”

but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his fatherís sheep in Bethlehem.

One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.

So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.

David replied, “Your servant has been tending his fatherís sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,

“Whose son are you, young man?” asked Saul. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.

Therefore Saul sent David away and gave him command of a thousand men. David led the troops out to battle and back,

And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my fatherís clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”

But when Saulís servants relayed these words to David, he replied, “Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed.”

So Jonathan summoned David and told him all these things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul to serve him as he had before.

Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the boy and said, “Go, take it back to the city.”

“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”

Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the kingís son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard who is honored in your house?

She arose, then bowed facedown and said, “Here is your maidservant, ready to serve and to wash the feet of my lordís servants.”

David replied, “Then you will come to know what your servant can do.” “Very well,” said Achish. “I will make you my bodyguard for life.”

Now please listen to your servant and let me set a morsel of bread before you so you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.”

So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright in my sight, and it seems right that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you have no favor in the sight of the leaders.

“But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

When Joab returned from pursuing Abner, he gathered all the troops. In addition to Asahel, nineteen of Davidís servants were missing,

In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people Israel, ëWhy havenít you built Me a house of cedar?í

For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.

and King David dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had dedicated from all the nations he had subdued—

Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;