Rulers

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• 2 Chronicles 35:1-27 OT

  Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them in the service of Yahweh’s house. He said to the Levites who taught…

• Ezra 1:1-11 OT

  Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also…

• 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…

• Ezra 7:1-28 OT

  Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of…

• Nehemiah 2:1-20 OT

  In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence. The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you…

• Nehemiah 5:14 OT

  Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the…

• Nehemiah 4:1-23 OT

  But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews. He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify…

• Nehemiah 5:1-19 OT

  Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.” There were also some who…

• Jonah 3:6-9 OT

  The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his…

• Genesis 15:13 OT

  He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

• Genesis 15:14 OT

  I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;

• Exodus 3:9 OT

  Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

• 1 Samuel 8:10-18 OT

  Samuel told all Yahweh’s words to the people who asked him for a king. He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen;…

• 2 Chronicles 28:19 OT

  For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he acted without restraint in Judah and trespassed severely against Yahweh.

• Nehemiah 5:7-9 OT

  Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them. I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our…

• Nehemiah 9:34-37 OT

  Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them. For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your…

• Job 24:22 OT

  Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

• Job 24:24 OT

  They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

• Job 35:9 OT

  “By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

• Psalms 10:17 OT

  Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

• Psalms 10:18 OT

  to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

• Psalms 12:5 OT

  “Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

• Psalms 12:8 OT

  The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

• Psalms 49:20 OT

  A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.