Quotes about Authority
But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
— Deuteronomy 17:12
Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will no longer behave arrogantly.
— Deuteronomy 17:13
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
— Deuteronomy 17:14
you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.
— Deuteronomy 17:15
When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
— Deuteronomy 17:18
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
— Deuteronomy 18:15
And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.
— Deuteronomy 18:19
But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”
— Deuteronomy 18:20
When the officers have finished addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it.
— Deuteronomy 20:9
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
— Deuteronomy 21:18
his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
— Deuteronomy 21:19
and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
— Deuteronomy 21:20