Loyalty

Enjoined

Exo 22:28; Num 27:20; Ezr 6:10; Ezr 7:26; Job 34:18; Pro 24:21; Ecc 8:2; Ecc 10:4; Rom 13:1; Tit 3:1

Enforced

Ezr 10:8; Pro 17:11

Disloyalty

2Pe 2:10 Patriotism

Instances of:

– Israelites

Jos 1:16-18; 2Sa 3:36-37; 2Sa 15:23; 2Sa 15:30; 2Sa 18:3; 2Sa 21:17; 1Ch 12:38

– David

1Sa 24:6-10; 1Sa 26:6-16; 2Sa 1:14

– Uriah

2Sa 11:9

– Ittai

2Sa 15:21

– Hushai

2Sa 17:15-16

– David’s soldiers

2Sa 18:12-13; 2Sa 23:15-16

– Joab

2Sa 19:5-6

– Barzillai

2Sa 19:32

– Jehoiada

2Ki 11:4-12

– Mordecai

Est 2:21-23