Quotes About Support

Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks your life is seeking mine as well. You will be safe with me.”

And Saulís son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and strengthened his hand in God,

So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. And David remained in Horesh, while Jonathan went home.

Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.

They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

Now please listen to your servant and let me set a morsel of bread before you so you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.”

So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.

Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—

When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him from the Brook of Besor, they came out to meet him and the troops with him. As David approached the men, he greeted them,

Who will listen to your proposal? The share of the one who went to battle will match the share of the one who stayed with the supplies. They will share alike.”

He sent gifts to those in Bethel, Ramoth Negev, and Jattir;

“If the Arameans are too strong for me,” said Joab, “then you will come to my rescue. And if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to your rescue.

The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.

“Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”

Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.”

and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.

When David came to the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Archite was there to meet him with his robe torn and dust on his head.

David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.

And Davidís friend Hushai the Archite went to Absalom and said to him, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”

Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, where a servant girl would come and pass along information to them. They in turn would go and inform King David, for they dared not be seen entering the city.

When David came to Mahanaim, he was met by Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Machir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim.

He sent out the troops, a third under Joab, a third under Joabís brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the troops, “I will surely march out with you as well.”

But the people pleaded, “You must not go out! For if we have to flee, they will pay no attention to us. Even if half of us die, they will not care; but you are worth ten thousand of us. It is better for now if you support us from the city.”

“I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.