Quotes About Responsibility

As the time drew near for David to die, he charged his son Solomon,

“I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and prove yourself a man.

On the day you go out and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will die; your blood will be on your own head.”

So why have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”

Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.

Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.

Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.

Now Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.

“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your fatherís service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

As the king passed by, he cried out to the king: “Your servant had marched out into the middle of the battle, when suddenly a man came over with a captive and told me, ëGuard this man! If he goes missing for any reason, your life will be exchanged for his life, or you will weigh out a talent of silver.í

But while your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared.” And the king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you have pronounced it on yourself.”

As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”

Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the kingís household.”

and commanded them, “This is what you are to do: A third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall guard the royal palace,

Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.”

So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”

So the priests agreed that they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.

No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay the workmen, because they acted with integrity.

The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.

Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”

But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity.”

Ahi son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, was head of their family.

he was previously stationed at the Kingís Gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the Levites.