Topic
Loyalty
37 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 22:28Nave Enjoined
¶ Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
- Numbers 27:20Nave Enjoined
And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
- Joshua 1:16–18Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites
¶ And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go. According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with…
- 1 Samuel 24:6–10Nave INSTANCES OF — David
And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD’s anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD. So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not…
- 1 Samuel 26:6–16Nave INSTANCES OF — David
Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee. So David and Abishai came to the people by night:…
- 2 Samuel 1:14Nave INSTANCES OF — David
And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?
- 2 Samuel 3:36Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites
And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
- 2 Samuel 3:37Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites
For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
- 2 Samuel 11:9Nave INSTANCES OF — Uriah
But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
- 2 Samuel 15:21Nave INSTANCES OF — Ittai
And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.
- 2 Samuel 15:23Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites
And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
- 2 Samuel 15:30Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites
¶ And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
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- 2 Samuel 17:15 Nave INSTANCES OF — Hushai
- 2 Samuel 17:16 Nave INSTANCES OF — Hushai
- 2 Samuel 18:3 Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites
- 2 Samuel 18:12 Nave INSTANCES OF — David's soldiers
- 2 Samuel 18:13 Nave INSTANCES OF — David's soldiers
- 2 Samuel 19:5 Nave INSTANCES OF — Joab
- 2 Samuel 19:6 Nave INSTANCES OF — Joab
- 2 Samuel 19:32 Nave INSTANCES OF — Barzillai
- 2 Samuel 21:17 Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites
- 2 Samuel 23:15 Nave INSTANCES OF — David's soldiers
- 2 Samuel 23:16 Nave INSTANCES OF — David's soldiers
- 2 Kings 11:4–12 Nave INSTANCES OF — Jehoiada
- 1 Chronicles 12:38 Nave INSTANCES OF — Israelites
- Ezra 6:10 Nave Enjoined
- Ezra 7:26 Nave Enjoined
- Ezra 10:8 Nave Enforced
- Esther 2:21–23 Nave INSTANCES OF — Mordecai
- Job 34:18 Nave Enjoined
- Proverbs 17:11 Nave Enforced
- Proverbs 24:21 Nave Enjoined
- Ecclesiastes 8:2 Nave Enjoined
- Ecclesiastes 10:4 Nave Enjoined
- Romans 13:1 Nave Enjoined
- Titus 3:1 Nave Enjoined
- 2 Peter 2:10 Nave Disloyalty
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Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.