Loyalty February 2014 Loyalty Bible Study



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Loyalty - February 2014


Loyalty Bible Study
In the dictionary, the word loyal means unswerving in allegiance as 1) faithful allegiance to one’s sovereign or government, 2) faithful to a private person to whom fidelity is due, 3) faithful to a cause, ideal or custom. Synonyms are: faithful, allegiance, devotion, dedication, constant, unwavering, steady, unfailing.

What’s the difference between being loyal to a local sports team, say the Giants or Rams, and being loyal to the coach of a team for which you play?

Think of the people, organizations, teams, causes, etc. to which you are (or have been) loyal. Which ones are deserving of your loyalty? Which ones are not?

What does the Bible have to say about loyalty and being loyal?



  1. Loyalty is unwavering in good times and bad. (Proverbs 17:17)

  2. Loyalty is what you do, not what you say. (Matthew 26:33-35 and 26:69-75)

  3. Loyalty is in your heart. It is willing and not reluctant. (Psalm 78:8)

  4. Loyalty can be demanding. (Exodus 17:8-13)

  5. Loyalty may involve sacrifice. (2 Chronicles 11:13-16)

  6. Loyalty to the Lord will be rewarded. (Psalm 84:10-11) When this psalm says “those whose walk is blameless” it refers to Genesis 17:1 when the Lord appeared to Abraham and said to him “walk with me and be blameless” meaning that Abraham would receive the Lord’s promises if he was faithful and obedient.

  7. Disloyalty will be punished. Because Edom deserted Israel in its time of need, "I will bring you plummeting down," said the Lord. (Obadiah 1:4-14, especially verses 4 and 11)

How is loyalty different from friendship? How is it the same as friendship? (There's a real difference. Look up both words in the dictionary.)

How do you feel when a friend proves himself loyal or faithful to you?



How are you at being a loyal and faithful friend?

Next Steps:

  • Perhaps the most familiar story in the Bible about loyalty is found in the book of Ruth. Really, the whole book is the story of Ruth's mother-in-law, Naomi. She, her husband and two sons had traveled to the land of Moab to escape a famine in Israel. Naomi alone survived and with her were the two Moabite widows of her sons. When she decided to return to Israel, the women embarked with her on the journey. She, however, urged them to return to their birth families. One did. The other, Ruth, swore to go where she went, to die and be buried where Naomi was buried, and to adopt Naomi's God. As a result of this commitment to be loyal to Naomi, Ruth found a new and affluent husband and became the grandmother of King David and a direct ancestress of Jesus Christ.

History

  • This same David's life depended on another famously loyal friend, the son and presumptive heir to the throne of King Saul. The two men loved each other and swore to protect each other. David had already been privately anointed as the next king by the powerful prophet, Samuel and he was serving as a minstrel in the court of King Saul. David's victories in battle and popularity with the people provoked the king's wrath so much that Saul decided to kill David. When Jonathan learned this, he helped David to escape. This was a real test of his loyalty to his friend because Jonathan's actions ensured that the throne would never pass to him. You can read about this in 1 Samuel 18:1-4 and 1 Samuel 20:1-42.

Significance

  • Jesus is another significant example of a man who exhibited a fierce loyalty. He was loyal, however, to his heavenly God and Father. In John 5, Jesus is quoted as saying that he did nothing except what he saw his father doing. In fact, Jesus even declared that he put his trust in no man. His loyalty to God caused a lot of people to misunderstand his intentions, as when he neglected to visit Lazarus when he was sick and could have been healed, for example. By waiting until after Lazarus was dead, he demonstrated God's power even over death as a way to foreshadow his own resurrection to his disciples.

Considerations

  • Many people proclaimed their loyalty to Jesus, including Simon Peter. On the same night that Jesus was betrayed and arrested by the Jewish authorities, the day before his death, Peter bragged that even if everyone else disowned him, he would not. Jesus countered this claim with the statement that before the rooster crowed in the morning, Peter would have denied him three times. Unlike Jonathan, Peter's fear overcame his commitment to be loyal to his greatest friend. Fortunately, Jesus rose from the dead and was able to personally forgive Peter and restore his position as a leading apostle. See Matthew 26:33-37 and John 21:1-19.

Warning

  • The other disciple whose disloyalty to Jesus may be as famous as Peter's is Judas Iscariot. He was the treasurer of Jesus' band when he decided to betray him to the Jewish religious leaders who were desperate to find a way to kill him. For 30 pieces of silver, Judas Iscariot agreed to identify Jesus to the soldiers of the high priest the night before Passover and the day before Jesus died. The signal was a kiss. This ultimate disloyalty so backfired that Judas, unable to find the hope of forgiveness, committed suicide. Perhaps if Judas' disloyalty had been, like Peter's, an act based on fear and self-defense, instead of on greed and self-advancement, he too would have been restored to a place of favor after Jesus' resurrection

Scriptures on Loyalty

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 131 helpful votes


A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 112 helpful votes


A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ESV / 81 helpful votes


Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.

Matthew 26:35 ESV / 78 helpful votes


Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.

Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 76 helpful votes


Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.

Matthew 26:33 ESV / 60 helpful votes


Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.”

Ecclesiastes 10:4 ESV / 49 helpful votes


If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.

1 Samuel 24:6-10 ESV / 48 helpful votes


He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the Lord's anointed.” So David persuaded his men with these words and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way. Afterward David also arose and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and paid homage. And David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Behold, David seeks your harm’? Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's anointed.’

Titus 3:1 ESV / 47 helpful votes


Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Romans 13:1 ESV / 47 helpful votes


Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 47 helpful votes


But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 45 helpful votes


“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

1 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes


Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.

Proverbs 3:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes


Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

John 3:16 ESV / 26 helpful votes


“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Samuel 26:6-16 ESV / 26 helpful votes


Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab's brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah, “Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.” So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him. Then said Abishai to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.” But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless?” And David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.

John 16:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes


When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Proverbs 24:21 ESV / 19 helpful votes


My son, fear the Lord and the king, and do not join with those who do otherwise,

Joshua 1:16-18 ESV / 19 helpful votes


And they answered Joshua, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the Lord your God be with you, as he was with Moses! Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes


Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes


Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Proverbs 17:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes


An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

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Job 34:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes


Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.

Ezra 6:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes


That they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes


“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

2 Kings 11:4-12 ESV / 10 helpful votes


But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the Lord. And he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the Lord, and he showed them the king's son. And he commanded them, “This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, those who come off duty on the Sabbath and guard the king's house (another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards) shall guard the palace. And the two divisions of you, which come on duty in force on the Sabbath and guard the house of the Lord on behalf of the king, shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever approaches the ranks is to be put to death. Be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.”

2 Samuel 18:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes


But the men said, “You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.”

2 Samuel 15:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes


But Ittai answered the king, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”

Deuteronomy 32:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes


“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

2 Samuel 19:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes


Because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.

Numbers 27:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes


You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the people of Israel may obey.

Genesis 17:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes


God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes


If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes


Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Ecclesiastes 8:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes


I say: Keep the king's command, because of God's oath to him.

2 Samuel 18:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes


But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king's son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’

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Acts 19:1-7 ESV / 7 helpful votes


And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John's baptism.” And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Esther 2:21-23 ESV / 7 helpful votes


In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai. When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.

Ezra 7:26 ESV / 7 helpful votes


Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”

Leviticus 26:1-46 ESV / 7 helpful votes


“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.

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1 Corinthians 15:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes


Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?

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Matthew 7:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes


And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

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2 Samuel 21:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes


But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, “You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”

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2 Samuel 15:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes


And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.

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2 Samuel 3:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes


May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!”

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2 Samuel 1:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes


David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the Lord's anointed?”

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Judges 3:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes


And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.

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1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes


Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

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Romans 10:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes


So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

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Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 5 helpful votes


At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter.

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John 1:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes


And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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Hosea 1:1-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes


The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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Ezra 10:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes


And that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.

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2 Chronicles 20:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes


And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.”

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2 Chronicles 16:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes


For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”

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2 Samuel 15:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes


But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went.

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2 Samuel 3:37 ESV / 5 helpful votes


So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to put to death Abner the son of Ner.

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Genesis 17:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes


When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,

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Revelation 16:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes


And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, “Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments.

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2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes


As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

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1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes


If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

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1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes


Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge—

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Job 34:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes


Who says to a king, ‘Worthless one,’ and to nobles, ‘Wicked man,’

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2 Peter 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes


And especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,

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John 4:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes


For you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

John 1:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes


In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

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Luke 9:59-62 ESV / 3 helpful votes


To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

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Mark 16:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes


And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

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Mark 13:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes


And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

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Matthew 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes


And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

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Zechariah 7:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes


“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

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Jonah 3:1-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes


Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

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Daniel 7:1-28 ESV / 3 helpful votes


In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it. And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’

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Daniel 2:1-49 ESV / 3 helpful votes


In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him. Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. And the king said to them, “I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.” Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.” The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins.

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Ecclesiastes 10:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes


Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to everyone that he is a fool. If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest. There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler:

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Proverbs 7:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes


Now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.

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1 Chronicles 12:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes


All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with full intent to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.

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2 Samuel 23:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes


And David said longingly, “Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”

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2 Samuel 19:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes


Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.

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2 Samuel 18:13 ESV /


On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof.”

2 Samuel 11:9 ESV /


But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

Revelation 17:1-18 ESV


Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.”

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

2 Samuel 19:5 ESV /


Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life and the lives of your sons and your daughters and the lives of your wives and your concubines,

Exodus 22:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes


“You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.


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