King

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Ecclesiastes 8:4 OT

  for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

• Proverbs 14:28 OT

  In the multitude of people is the king’s glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

• Psalms 33:16 OT

  There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

• Ecclesiastes 5:9 OT

  Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

• Deuteronomy 17:19 OT

  It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

• Psalms 2:10-12 OT

  Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth. Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled.…

• 1 Kings 2:3 OT

  and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do,…

• Ezra 1:2-4 OT

  “Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be…

• Ezra 6:1-12 OT

  Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched. A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a…

• Isaiah 49:23 OT

  Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be…

• 2 Samuel 23:3 OT

  The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

• Proverbs 31:8 OT

  Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

• Proverbs 31:9 OT

  Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

• Proverbs 25:2 OT

  It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

• Proverbs 31:5 OT

  lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

• Proverbs 28:16 OT

  A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

• Proverbs 16:12 OT

  It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

• Proverbs 29:14 OT

  The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

• Proverbs 31:3 OT

  Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

• Proverbs 17:7 OT

  Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

• Proverbs 29:12 OT

  If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

• Proverbs 31:4 OT

  It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’

• Acts 9:15 NT

  But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

• Acts 26:27 NT

  King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”