2 Samuel 23:3

God, the Rock of Israel, declares the standard for rulers: to govern righteously in the fear of God.

Cross-references · 23

• Deut 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
• Exod 18:21Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
• 2 Sam 22:32For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God?
• Ps 72:2He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
• Ps 82:3–4“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
• Exod 23:6–8“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
• Heb 1:8But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
• Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
• Deut 16:18–20You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
• Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
• Jer 23:5“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
• Ps 42:9I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
• 2 Sam 22:2–3and he said: “Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
• Isa 32:1Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.
• Gen 33:20He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.
• 2 Chr 19:7–9Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”
• Isa 11:1–5A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
• Deut 32:30–31How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
• Neh 5:14Moreover 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 governor.
• Exod 20:2“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
• Prov 31:9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”
• Ps 110:2Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.
• Exod 3:15God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.

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