Quotes About Response

When Saul heard their words, the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he burned with great anger.

If they say, ëWait until we come to you,í then we will stay where we are and will not go up to them.

“Stop!” exclaimed Samuel. “Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” “Tell me,” Saul replied.

“What have I done now?” said David. “Was it not just a question?”

Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.

And the servants told Saul what David had said.

When this was reported to Saul, he sent more messengers, but they began to prophesy as well. So Saul tried again and sent messengers a third time, and even they began to prophesy.

“Listen now, son of Ahitub,” said Saul. “Here I am, my lord,” he replied.

Then a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Come quickly, for the Philistines have raided the land!”

When Davidís young men arrived, they relayed all these words to Nabal on behalf of David. Then they waited.

So Davidís men turned around and went back, and they relayed to him all these words.

Meanwhile, one of Nabalís young men informed Nabalís wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he scolded them.

And David shouted to the troops and to Abner son of Ner, “Will you not answer me, Abner?” “Who calls to the king?” Abner replied.

He inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets.

When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

When he turned around and saw me, he called out and I answered, ëHere I am!í

When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.

When King David heard all this, he was furious.

So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.

But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ëCurse David,í who can ask, ëWhy did you do this?í”

So Joab said to a Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed to Joab and took off running.

The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And Ahimaaz replied, “When Joab sent the kingís servant and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was.”

And he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, who asked him, “Mephibosheth, why did you not go with me?”

And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the kingís expense or received anything for ourselves?”