Quotes About Understanding

And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ëWho will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?í

They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.

If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation—the heads of Israelís clans who were with him—heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were satisfied.

“Why do you ask my name,” said the angel of the LORD, “since it is beyond comprehension?”

And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD.

But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.”

Then Samsonís wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”

She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.

And while they were near Micahís house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they went over and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”

When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”

“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why wonít you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” “I did not call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down.

Once again the LORD called, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” “My son, I did not call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.”

Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, because the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.

Once again, for the third time, the LORD called to Samuel. He got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you have called me.” Then Eli realized that it was the LORD who was calling the boy.

They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”

but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”

“Tell me,” Saulís uncle asked, “what did Samuel say to you?”

“What have I done now?” said David. “Was it not just a question?”

Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.

I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, so I can ask about you. And if I find out anything, I will tell you.”

“Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,