GOVERNMENT

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• Genesis 41:25

  Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:26

  The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

• Genesis 41:27

  The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

• Genesis 41:28

  That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:29

  Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:30

  There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

• Genesis 41:31

  and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

• Genesis 41:32

  The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

• Genesis 41:33

  “Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:34

  Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.

• Genesis 41:35

  Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

• Genesis 41:36

  The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine.”

• Genesis 41:37

  The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

• Genesis 41:38

  Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”

• Genesis 41:39

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

• Genesis 41:40

  You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

• Genesis 41:41

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

• Genesis 41:42

  Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,

• Genesis 41:43

  and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:44

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

• Genesis 41:45

  Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:46

  Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:47

  In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.

• Genesis 41:48

  He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.

• Genesis 41:49

  Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

• Genesis 41:50

  To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

• Genesis 41:51

  Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”

• Genesis 41:52

  The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

• Genesis 41:53

  The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

• Genesis 41:54

  The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

• Genesis 41:55

  When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”

• Genesis 41:56

  The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:57

  All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

• Exodus 3:16

  Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;

• Exodus 3:18

  They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’

• Exodus 4:29

  Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

• Exodus 4:30

  Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

• Exodus 4:31

  The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

• Exodus 12:21

  Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.

• Exodus 17:5

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.

• Exodus 17:6

  Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

• Exodus 18:12

  Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

• Exodus 18:13

  On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

• Exodus 18:14

  When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?”

• Exodus 18:15

  Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

• Exodus 18:16

  When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”

• Exodus 18:17

  Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.

• Exodus 18:18

  You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

• Exodus 18:19

  Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

• Exodus 18:20

  You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

• Exodus 18:21

  Moreover 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.

• Exodus 18:22

  Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

• Exodus 18:23

  If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”

• Exodus 18:24

  So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

• Exodus 18:25

  Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

• Exodus 18:26

  They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

• Exodus 19:7

  Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.

• Exodus 19:8

  All the people answered together, and said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do.” Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.

• Exodus 24:1

  He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

• Exodus 24:3

  Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”

• Exodus 24:7

  He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.”

• Exodus 24:14

  He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”

• Leviticus 4:15

  The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh.

• Leviticus 9:1

  On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

• Numbers 11:16

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

• Numbers 11:17

  I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.

• Numbers 11:18

  “Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore Yahweh will give you meat, and you will eat.

• Numbers 11:24

  Moses went out, and told the people Yahweh’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.

• Numbers 11:25

  Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.

• Numbers 11:30

  Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

• Numbers 14:1

  All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

• Numbers 14:2

  All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

• Numbers 14:3

  Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”

• Numbers 14:4

  They said to one another, “Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.”

• Numbers 14:5

  Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

• Numbers 14:6

  Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.

• Numbers 14:7

  They spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.

• Numbers 14:8

  If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

• Numbers 14:9

  Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”

• Numbers 14:10

  But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.

• Numbers 16:25

  Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

• Numbers 27:18

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.

• Numbers 27:19

  Set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight.

• Numbers 27:20

  You shall give authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.

• Numbers 27:21

  He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”

• Numbers 27:22

  Moses did as Yahweh commanded him. He took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation.

• Numbers 27:23

  He laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as Yahweh spoke by Moses.

• Numbers 35:12

  The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

• Numbers 35:24

  then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

• Numbers 35:25

  The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

• Deuteronomy 1:9

  I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.

• Deuteronomy 1:10

  Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.

• Deuteronomy 1:11

  Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

• Deuteronomy 1:12

  How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?

• Deuteronomy 1:13

  Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”

• Deuteronomy 1:14

  You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”

• Deuteronomy 1:15

  So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

• Deuteronomy 1:16

  I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

• Deuteronomy 1:17

  You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

• Deuteronomy 5:23

  When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

• Deuteronomy 27:1

  Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you today.

• Deuteronomy 29:10

  All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

• Deuteronomy 29:11

  your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

• Deuteronomy 29:12

  that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today;

• Deuteronomy 29:13

  that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

• Deuteronomy 29:14

  Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,

• Deuteronomy 29:15

  but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today

• Deuteronomy 31:9

  Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 31:28

  Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

• Joshua 7:6

  Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

• Joshua 8:10

  Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

• Joshua 8:32

  He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

• Joshua 8:33

  All Israel, their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

• Joshua 23:2

  Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.

• Joshua 23:3

  You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.

• Joshua 23:6

  “Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left;

• Joshua 24:1

  Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

• Joshua 24:24

  The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”

• Joshua 24:25

  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

• Judges 21:16

  Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”

• Judges 21:17

  They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.

• Judges 21:18

  However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, ‘Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.’”

• Judges 21:19

  They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”

• Judges 21:20

  They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

• Judges 21:21

  and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

• Judges 21:22

  It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.’”

• Judges 21:23

  The children of Benjamin did so, and took wives for themselves, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.

• Judges 21:24

  The children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they each went out from there to his own inheritance.

• Judges 21:25

  In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

• 1 Samuel 8:4

  Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.

• 1 Samuel 8:5

  They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

• 1 Samuel 8:6

  But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 8:7

  Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.

• 1 Samuel 8:8

  According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.

• 1 Samuel 8:9

  Now therefore listen to their voice. However you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who will reign over them.”

• 1 Samuel 8:10

  Samuel told all Yahweh’s words to the people who asked him for a king.

• 1 Samuel 8:11

  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; and they will run before his chariots.

• 1 Samuel 8:12

  He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

• 1 Samuel 8:13

  He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.

• 1 Samuel 8:14

  He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.

• 1 Samuel 8:15

  He will take one tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his servants.

• 1 Samuel 8:16

  He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.

• 1 Samuel 8:17

  He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.

• 1 Samuel 8:18

  You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

• 1 Samuel 8:19

  But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,

• 1 Samuel 8:20

  that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”

• 1 Samuel 8:21

  Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 8:22

  Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go to your own city.”

• 1 Samuel 10:24

  Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?” All the people shouted, and said, “Long live the king!”

• 1 Samuel 11:14

  Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.”

• 1 Samuel 11:15

  All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

• 1 Samuel 14:44

  Saul said, “God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”

• 1 Samuel 14:45

  The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

• 1 Samuel 15:30

  Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

• 2 Samuel 3:17

  Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, “In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.

• 2 Samuel 3:18

  Now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.’”

• 2 Samuel 3:19

  Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin.

• 2 Samuel 3:20

  So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.

• 2 Samuel 3:21

  Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

• 2 Samuel 5:1

  Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

• 2 Samuel 5:2

  In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’”

• 2 Samuel 5:3

  So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

• 2 Samuel 12:17

  The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.

• 2 Samuel 17:4

  The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 19:11

  King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.

• 1 Kings 8:1

  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

• 1 Kings 8:2

  All the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

• 1 Kings 8:3

  All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark.

• 1 Kings 12:6

  King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”

• 1 Kings 12:7

  They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”

• 1 Kings 12:8

  But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

• 1 Kings 12:13

  The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

• 1 Kings 20:7

  Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”

• 1 Kings 20:8

  All the elders and all the people said to him, “Don’t listen, and don’t consent.”

• 2 Kings 23:1

  The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 11:3

  So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to Yahweh’s word by Samuel.

• 1 Chronicles 15:25

  So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.

• 1 Chronicles 21:16

  David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

• 1 Chronicles 29:22

  and ate and drank before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him before Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.

• 2 Chronicles 5:2

  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

• 2 Chronicles 5:3

  So all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.

• 2 Chronicles 5:4

  All the elders of Israel came. The Levites took up the ark;

• 2 Chronicles 17:7

  Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;

• 2 Chronicles 17:8

  and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.

• 2 Chronicles 17:9

  They taught in Judah, having the book of Yahweh’s law with them. They went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

• 2 Chronicles 23:3

  All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. He said to them, “Behold, the king’s son must reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.

• 2 Chronicles 34:29

  Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 34:31

  The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

• Ezra 9:1

  Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

• Ezra 10:8

  and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

• Ezra 10:9

  Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.

• Ezra 10:10

  Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

• Ezra 10:11

  Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”

• Ezra 10:12

  Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “As you have said concerning us, so must we do.

• Ezra 10:13

  But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

• Ezra 10:14

  Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”

• Jeremiah 26:10

  When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to Yahweh’s house; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 26:11

  Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, “This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”

• Jeremiah 26:12

  Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, “Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.

• Jeremiah 26:13

  Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; and Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.

• Jeremiah 26:14

  But as for me, behold, I am in your hand. Do with me what is good and right in your eyes.

• Jeremiah 26:15

  Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

• Jeremiah 26:16

  Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: “This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.”

• Jeremiah 26:17

  Then certain of the elders of the land rose up, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

• Jeremiah 26:18

  “Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “‘Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’

• Jeremiah 26:19

  Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”

• Jeremiah 26:20

  There was also a man who prophesied in Yahweh’s name, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

• Jeremiah 26:21

  When Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt:

• Jeremiah 26:22

  and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;

• Jeremiah 26:23

  and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

• Jeremiah 26:24

  But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

• Daniel 1:3

  The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the royal offspring and of the nobles;

• Daniel 1:4

  youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.

• Daniel 1:5

  The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.

• Daniel 1:6

  Now among these were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

• Daniel 1:7

  The prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, Shadrach; and to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.

• Daniel 1:8

  But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

• Daniel 1:9

  Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

• Daniel 1:10

  The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.

• Daniel 1:11

  Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

• Daniel 1:12

  Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

• Daniel 1:13

  Then let our faces be looked on before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.

• Daniel 1:14

  So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

• Daniel 1:15

  At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties.

• Daniel 1:16

  So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.

• Daniel 1:17

  Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

• Daniel 1:18

  At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

• Daniel 1:19

  The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.

• Daniel 1:20

  In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

• Matthew 15:2

  “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

• Matthew 15:7

  You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

• Matthew 15:8

  ‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

• Matthew 15:9

  And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”

• Matthew 21:23

  When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”

• Matthew 26:3

  Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

• Matthew 26:4

  They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

• Matthew 26:5

  But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”

• Matthew 26:57

  Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

• Matthew 26:58

  But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.

• Matthew 26:59

  Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

• Matthew 26:60

  and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

• Matthew 26:61

  and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”

• Matthew 26:62

  The high priest stood up, and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?”

• Matthew 26:63

  But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

• Matthew 26:64

  Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”

• Matthew 26:65

  Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

• Matthew 26:66

  What do you think?” They answered, “He is worthy of death!”

• Matthew 26:67

  Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

• Matthew 26:68

  saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?”

• Matthew 27:1

  Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

• Matthew 27:2

  and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

• Mark 7:1

  Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

• Mark 7:2

  Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

• Mark 7:3

  (For the Pharisees and all the Jews, don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

• Mark 8:31

  He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

• Mark 14:43

  Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came — and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.

• Mark 14:44

  Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, “Whomever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely.”

• Mark 14:45

  When he had come, immediately he came to him, and said, “Rabbi! Rabbi!” and kissed him.

• Mark 14:46

  They laid their hands on him, and seized him.

• Mark 14:47

  But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

• Mark 14:48

  Jesus answered them, “Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me?

• Mark 14:49

  I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”

• Mark 14:50

  They all left him, and fled.

• Mark 14:51

  A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. The young men grabbed him,

• Mark 14:52

  but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.

• Mark 14:53

  They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.

• Mark 14:54

  Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.

• Mark 14:55

  Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

• Mark 14:56

  For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn’t agree with each other.

• Mark 14:57

  Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,

• Mark 14:58

  “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”

• Mark 14:59

  Even so, their testimony did not agree.

• Mark 14:60

  The high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?”

• Mark 14:61

  But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”

• Mark 14:62

  Jesus said, “I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.”

• Mark 14:63

  The high priest tore his clothes, and said, “What further need have we of witnesses?

• Mark 14:64

  You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?” They all condemned him to be worthy of death.

• Acts 5:17

  But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,

• Acts 5:18

  and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody.

• Acts 5:21

  When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

• Acts 5:22

  But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,

• Acts 5:23

  “We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”

• Acts 5:24

  Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.

• Acts 5:25

  One came and told them, “Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.”

• Acts 5:26

  Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

• Acts 5:27

  When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,

• Acts 5:28

  saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

• Acts 5:29

  But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

• Acts 5:30

  The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

• Acts 5:31

  God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

• Acts 5:32

  We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

• Acts 5:33

  But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

• Acts 5:34

  But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

• Acts 5:35

  He said to them, “You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.

• Acts 5:36

  For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.

• Acts 5:37

  After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.

• Acts 5:38

  Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

• Acts 5:39

  But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

• Acts 5:40

  They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

• Acts 5:41

  They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.