Rulers

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Hosea 5:10 OT

  The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

• Hosea 7:3 OT

  They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

• Hosea 10:7 OT

  Samaria and her king float away, like a twig on the water.

• Amos 3:10 OT

  “Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

• Amos 3:11 OT

  Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.”

• Amos 4:1 OT

  Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

• Amos 4:2 OT

  The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

• Amos 5:11 OT

  Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

• Amos 5:12 OT

  For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

• Amos 6:12 OT

  Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

• Amos 6:13 OT

  you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, ‘Haven’t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?’

• Micah 3:1-3 OT

  I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice? You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; who also eat the…

• Micah 3:9-11 OT

  Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests…

• Micah 7:3 OT

  Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

• Micah 7:4 OT

  The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

• Habakkuk 1:4 OT

  Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

• Habakkuk 2:5-13 OT

  Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples. Won’t all…

• Zephaniah 1:8 OT

  It will happen in the day of Yahweh’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king’s sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign clothing.

• Zephaniah 3:3 OT

  Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

• Acts 23:3 NT

  Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”

• James 2:6 NT

  But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

• James 2:9 NT

  But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

• Genesis 39:20 OT

  Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

• Exodus 1:1-22 OT

  Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. All the souls who came out…