Quotes About Identity

So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.

And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?

When David had finished saying these things, Saul called back, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud

But Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants these days are breaking away from their masters.

Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”

Then Saul recognized Davidís voice and asked, “Is that your voice, David my son?” “It is my voice, my lord and king,” David said.

So Achish trusted David, thinking, “Since he has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel, he will be my servant forever.”

But when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out in a loud voice and said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”

“But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.

ëWho are you?í he asked. So I told him, ëI am an Amalekite.í

And David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner,” he answered. “I am an Amalekite.”

And Abner glanced back and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” “It is,” Asahel replied.

his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;

his fourth was Adonijah, the son of Haggith; his fifth was Shephatiah, the son of Abital;

because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,

And Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?

And when Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he fell facedown in reverence. Then David said, “Mephibosheth!” “I am your servant,” he replied.

Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”

and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.