Quotes About Tradition

The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second was Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.

So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.

“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”

And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

As soon as you enter the city, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests will eat. Go up at once; you will find him.”

Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed if your seat is empty.

But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, Davidís place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasnít the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”

When his servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said, “David has sent us to take you as his wife.”

The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

And so it has been from that day forward. David established this statute as an ordinance for Israel to this very day.

Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

Then David ordered Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.” And King David himself walked behind the funeral bier.

So Amnonís attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, because this is what the kingís virgin daughters wore.

“Take my servants with you,” said the king. “Set my son Solomon on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.

Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, went down and set Solomon on King Davidís mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne brought for his mother, who sat down at his right hand.

So Bathsheba said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife.”

Ahimaaz in Naphtali (he had married Basemath, a daughter of Solomon);

The poles extended far enough that their ends were visible from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.

So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.

Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.

They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.