Quotes About Wisdom

Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the LORD says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;

“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ëNeither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.

And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëBecause you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,

When Micaiah son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll,

“Please sit down,” they said, “and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.

Then the officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must hide yourselves and tell no one where you are.”

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:

Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance to the house of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” said the king to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”

“If I tell you,” Jeremiah replied, “you will surely put me to death. And even if I give you advice, you will not listen to me.”

“They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.

When all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him, he relayed to them the exact words the king had commanded him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one had overheard the conversation.

Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”

But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, “Do not do such a thing! What you are saying about Ishmael is a lie.”

Pray that the LORD your God will tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”

After ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah,

Jeremiah told them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition:

Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,

“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:

I know his insolence,” declares the LORD, “but it is futile. His boasting is as empty as his deeds.

Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.