Quotes About Accountability

“What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.”

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.”

“You have not wronged us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.”

Samuel said to them, “The LORD is a witness against you, and His anointed is a witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is a witness,” they replied.

Now present yourselves, so that I may confront you before the LORD with all the righteous acts He has done for you and your fathers.

But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

Therefore Saul said, “Come here, all you leaders of the troops, and let us investigate how this sin has occurred today.

When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORDís instructions.”

But Samuel replied, “Then what is this bleating of sheep and lowing of cattle that I hear?”

Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have transgressed the LORDís commandment and your instructions, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD hold Davidís enemies accountable.”

So David said to Abner, “You are a man, arenít you? And who in Israel is your equal? Why then did you not protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?

This thing you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die, since you did not protect your lord, the LORDís anointed. Now look around. Where are the kingís spear and water jug that were by his head?”

For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ëI killed the LORDís anointed.í”

Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.

The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle,

David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”

Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.í”

The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?

Then Joab came to Absalomís house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”

The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.