Quotes About Authority

Then Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the land.

For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in all He has sent me to tell you.

Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëI will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!

Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.

With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.

Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.

There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.

The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.

Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.

Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ëThis is what the Lord GOD says.í

I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you are to tell them, ëThis is what the Lord GOD says.í Whoever listens, let him listen; and whoever refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.í”

Then I heard Him call out in a loud voice, saying, “Draw near, O executioners of the city, each with a weapon of destruction in hand.”

And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!

You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you, declares the Lord GOD.