Quotes About Promise

I thought I should inform you that you may buy it back in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, do so. But if you will not redeem it, tell me so I may know, because there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.” “I will redeem it,” he replied.

And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”

So after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.

And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.”

The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.

So in the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the LORD.”

but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”

Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.

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.

And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home.

When Jacob went to Egypt, your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He sent them Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.

and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of Davidís enemies from the face of the earth.”

And as for the matter you and I have discussed, the LORD is a witness between you and me forever.”

And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ëMay the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.í” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.

saying, “Do not be afraid, for my father Saul will never lay a hand on you. And you will be king over Israel, and I will be your second-in-command. Even my father Saul knows this is true.”

Now I know for sure that you will be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hands.

So now, swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my fatherís house.”

When the LORD has done for my lord all the good He promised, and when He has appointed you ruler over Israel,

May God punish Abner, and ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the LORD has sworn to him:

Even in times past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And to you the LORD said, ëYou will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.í”

So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel.

And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.