Quotes About Honor

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

Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines.

For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”

Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.

But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the road, and when the man saw that all the troops were stopping there, he dragged the body off the road into a field and threw a garment over it.

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

he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.

So David had the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan brought from there, along with the bones of those who had been hanged.

and when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Davidís brother Shimei killed him.

saying, “Far be it from me, O LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.

Was he not more honored than the Three? And he became their commander, even though he was not included among the Three.

These were the exploits of Benaiah son of Jehoiada, who won a name alongside the three mighty men.

He was most honored among the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. And David appointed him over his guard.

Helez the Paltite, Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.

And he has sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the other sons of the king, as well as Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army. But he did not invite your servant Solomon.

Bathsheba bowed facedown in homage to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”

As he was speaking, suddenly Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest arrived. “Come in,” said Adonijah, “for you are a man of valor. You must be bringing good news.”

So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne brought for his mother, who sat down at his right hand.

So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck down Joab, and killed him. He was buried at his own home in the wilderness.

Moreover, I will give you what you did not request—both riches and honor—so that during all your days no man in any kingdom will be your equal.

After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,