Quotes about Community
The neighbor women said, “A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, the father of David.
— Ruth 4:17
So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.
— 1 Samuel 8:4
As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.
— 1 Samuel 18:6
And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.
— 1 Samuel 22:2
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.
— 1 Samuel 25:15
because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.
— 2 Samuel 4:3
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.
— 2 Samuel 5:1
Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home.
— 2 Samuel 6:19
So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”
— 2 Samuel 19:14
a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here so that I may speak with him.”
— 2 Samuel 20:16
Then the woman said, “Long ago they used to say, ‘Seek counsel at Abel,’ and that is how disputes were settled.
— 2 Samuel 20:18
All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.
— 1 Kings 1:40