Quotes About Truth

When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.

Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.

But Jonadab, the son of Davidís brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.

So now, my lord the king, do not take to heart the report that all the sons of the king are dead. Only Amnon is dead.”

So Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the sons of the king have arrived! It is just as your servant said.”

But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my fatherís house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”

The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?

Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.

So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.

“Is this the loyalty you show your friend?” Absalom replied. “Why did you not go with your friend?”

Hushai replied, “This time the advice of Ahithophel is not sound.”

When Absalomís servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his fatherís tomb.

If I had jeopardized my own life—and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have abandoned me.”

But Joab replied, “You are not the man to take good news today. You may do it another day, but you must not do so today, because the kingís son is dead.”

You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!

and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.

“Far be it!” Joab declared. “Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!

to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; His word was on my tongue.

The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ëHe who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,

Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it?

But now, behold, Adonijah has become king, and you, my lord the king, did not know it.

And Solomon replied, “If he is a man of character, not a single hair of his will fall to the ground. But if evil is found in him, he will die.”