Quotes about Devotion
So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
— Judges 18:31
The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.
— Judges 21:4
This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
— Judges 21:11
Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
— Ruth 1:8
and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
— Ruth 1:10
Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
— Ruth 1:14
But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
— Ruth 1:16
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”
— Ruth 1:17
Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
— Ruth 2:11
“I will do everything you say,” Ruth answered.
— Ruth 3:5
Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
— 1 Samuel 1:3
And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.
— 1 Samuel 1:7