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 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
• Exod 18:21Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
• 2 Sam 22:32For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
• Ps 72:2He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
• Ps 82:3–4Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
• Exod 23:6–8Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
• Heb 1:8But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
• Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
• Deut 16:18–20Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
• Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
• Jer 23:5Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
• Ps 42:9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
• 2 Sam 22:2–3And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
• Isa 32:1Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
• Gen 33:20And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.
• 2 Chr 19:7–9Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
• Isa 11:1–5And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
• Deut 32:30–31How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut 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 unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
• Exod 20:2I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
• Prov 31:9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
• Ps 110:2The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
• Exod 3:15And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

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