Quotes About Love

“I have just one small request of you,” she said. “Do not deny me.” “Make your request, my mother,” the king replied, “for I will not deny you.”

And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.

So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.

The next morning, when I got up to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I examined him, I realized that he was not the son I had borne.”

“No,” said the other woman, “the living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the king.

Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”

Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”

And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”

and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORDís eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”

King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.

Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they lamented over him, “Oh, my brother!”

Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. “Look, your son is alive,” Elijah declared.

“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

Please run out now to meet her and ask, ëAre you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?í” And she answered, “Everything is all right.”

And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.

Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”

She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.

“Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”

When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore to him Hur.

Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

I will be his Father, and he will be My son. And I will never remove My loving devotion from him as I removed it from your predecessor.