KING

Passages on this topic · 300

• Deuteronomy 17:14

  When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it, and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me”;

• Deuteronomy 17:15

  you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh your God chooses. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

• Deuteronomy 17:16

  Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”

• Deuteronomy 17:17

  He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

• Deuteronomy 17:18

  It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites.

• Deuteronomy 17:19

  It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

• Deuteronomy 17:20

  that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left; to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.

• Judges 12:14

  He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.

• 1 Samuel 9:16

  “Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”

• 1 Samuel 9:17

  When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, “Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! He will have authority over my people.”

• 1 Samuel 10:1

  Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

• 1 Samuel 10:20

  So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen.

• 1 Samuel 10:21

  He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; and the family of the Matrites was chosen. Then Saul the son of Kish was chosen; but when they looked for him, he could not be found.

• 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 10:25

  Then Samuel told the people the regulations of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Yahweh. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

• 1 Samuel 10:27

  But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

• 1 Samuel 11:13

  Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

• 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 15:24

  Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

• 1 Samuel 16:1

  Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

• 1 Samuel 16:2

  Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 16:3

  Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. You shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.”

• 1 Samuel 16:4

  Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”

• 1 Samuel 16:5

  He said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

• 1 Samuel 16:6

  When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely Yahweh’s anointed is before him.”

• 1 Samuel 16:7

  But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

• 1 Samuel 16:8

  Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”

• 1 Samuel 16:9

  Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”

• 1 Samuel 16:10

  Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, “Yahweh has not chosen these.”

• 1 Samuel 16:11

  Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children here?” He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

• 1 Samuel 16:12

  He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a handsome face and good appearance. Yahweh said, “Arise! Anoint him, for this is he.”

• 1 Samuel 16:13

  Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

• 1 Samuel 16:20

  Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul.

• 1 Samuel 25:41

  She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”

• 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 7:12

  When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

• 2 Samuel 7:13

  He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

• 2 Samuel 7:14

  I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

• 2 Samuel 7:15

  but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

• 2 Samuel 7:16

  Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.”’”

• 2 Samuel 8:2

  He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

• 2 Samuel 8:15

  David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

• 2 Samuel 8:16

  Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,

• 2 Samuel 8:17

  Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, Seraiah was scribe,

• 2 Samuel 8:18

  Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, David’s sons were chief ministers.

• 2 Samuel 9:6

  Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, “Mephibosheth.” He answered, “Behold, your servant!”

• 2 Samuel 9:8

  He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

• 2 Samuel 12:30

  He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David’s head. He brought a great quantity of plunder out of the city.

• 2 Samuel 15:2

  Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

• 2 Samuel 15:10

  But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’”

• 2 Samuel 15:18

  All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

• 2 Samuel 16:4

  Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.” Ziba said, “I bow down. Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king.”

• 2 Samuel 20:23

  Now Joab was over all the army of Israel, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites,

• 2 Samuel 20:24

  Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder,

• 2 Samuel 20:25

  Sheva was scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests,

• 2 Samuel 20:26

  and Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David.

• 1 Kings 1:16

  Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to the king. The king said, “What would you like?”

• 1 Kings 1:23

  They told the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!” When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

• 1 Kings 1:28

  Then king David answered, “Call Bathsheba in to me.” She came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.

• 1 Kings 1:29

  The king swore, and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

• 1 Kings 1:30

  most certainly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place;’ I will most certainly do this today.”

• 1 Kings 1:31

  Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and showed respect to the king, and said, “Let my lord king David live forever!”

• 1 Kings 1:32

  King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king.

• 1 Kings 1:33

  The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.

• 1 Kings 1:34

  Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live king Solomon!’

• 1 Kings 1:47

  Moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;’ and the king bowed himself on the bed.

• 1 Kings 4:2

  These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

• 1 Kings 4:3

  Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;

• 1 Kings 4:4

  Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

• 1 Kings 4:5

  Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king’s friend;

• 1 Kings 4:6

  Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

• 1 Kings 4:7

  Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

• 1 Kings 4:8

  These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

• 1 Kings 4:9

  Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

• 1 Kings 4:10

  Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

• 1 Kings 4:11

  Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, as wife);

• 1 Kings 4:12

  Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

• 1 Kings 4:13

  Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);

• 1 Kings 4:14

  Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

• 1 Kings 4:15

  Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

• 1 Kings 4:16

  Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

• 1 Kings 4:17

  Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

• 1 Kings 4:18

  Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

• 1 Kings 4:19

  Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.

• 1 Kings 4:26

  Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

• 1 Kings 4:27

  Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month. They let nothing be lacking.

• 1 Kings 4:28

  They also brought Barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty.

• 1 Kings 10:2

  She came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

• 1 Kings 10:9

  Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”

• 1 Kings 10:10

  She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

• 1 Kings 10:15

  besides that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.

• 1 Kings 10:16

  King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler.

• 1 Kings 10:17

  he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

• 1 Kings 10:18

  Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

• 1 Kings 10:19

  There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.

• 1 Kings 10:20

  Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any kingdom.

• 1 Kings 10:21

  All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver, because it was considered of little value in the days of Solomon.

• 1 Kings 10:22

  For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

• 1 Kings 10:23

  So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

• 1 Kings 10:24

  All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

• 1 Kings 10:25

  Year after year, every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules.

• 1 Kings 10:26

  Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he kept in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

• 1 Kings 10:27

  The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

• 1 Kings 10:28

  The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

• 1 Kings 10:29

  A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty shekels; and so they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites, and to the kings of Syria.

• 1 Kings 12:18

  Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

• 1 Kings 16:9

  His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

• 1 Kings 18:4

  for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

• 1 Kings 18:13

  Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

• 1 Kings 19:1

  Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

• 1 Kings 19:2

  Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

• 1 Kings 19:3

  When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

• 1 Kings 20:16

  They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.

• 1 Kings 21:1

  After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

• 1 Kings 21:2

  Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”

• 1 Kings 21:3

  Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

• 1 Kings 21:4

  Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

• 1 Kings 21:5

  But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?”

• 1 Kings 21:6

  He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

• 1 Kings 21:7

  Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

• 1 Kings 21:8

  So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

• 1 Kings 21:9

  She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 1 Kings 21:10

  Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

• 1 Kings 21:11

  The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

• 1 Kings 21:12

  They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 1 Kings 21:13

  The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

• 1 Kings 21:14

  Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and is dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:15

  When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

• 1 Kings 21:16

  When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

• 2 Kings 8:1

  Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.”

• 2 Kings 8:2

  The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s word. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

• 2 Kings 8:3

  At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land.

• 2 Kings 8:4

  Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”

• 2 Kings 8:5

  As he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, begged the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”

• 2 Kings 8:6

  When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”

• 2 Kings 9:13

  Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.”

• 2 Kings 11:4

  In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into Yahweh’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in Yahweh’s house, and showed them the king’s son.

• 2 Kings 11:12

  Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”

• 2 Kings 11:17

  Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh’s people; also between the king and the people.

• 2 Kings 22:14

  So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.

• 1 Chronicles 1:43

  Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

• 1 Chronicles 1:44

  Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 1:45

  Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 1:46

  Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.

• 1 Chronicles 1:47

  Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 1:48

  Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 1:49

  Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 1:50

  Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

• 1 Chronicles 1:51

  Then Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth,

• 1 Chronicles 11:25

  Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he didn’t attain to the three; and David set him over his guard.

• 1 Chronicles 22:10

  He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.’

• 1 Chronicles 26:27

  They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair Yahweh’s house.

• 1 Chronicles 27:25

  Over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah;

• 1 Chronicles 27:26

  Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub;

• 1 Chronicles 27:27

  and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite;

• 1 Chronicles 27:28

  and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash;

• 1 Chronicles 27:29

  and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai;

• 1 Chronicles 27:30

  and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite; and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.

• 1 Chronicles 27:31

  All these were the rulers of the property which was king David’s.

• 2 Chronicles 2:11

  Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.”

• 2 Chronicles 2:12

  Huram continued, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who would build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

• 2 Chronicles 9:24

  They each brought tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules every year.

• 2 Chronicles 9:25

  Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 17:11

  Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute. The Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand seven hundred rams, and seven thousand seven hundred male goats.

• 2 Chronicles 20:21

  When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they go out before the army, and say, “Give thanks to Yahweh; for his loving kindness endures forever.”

• 2 Chronicles 21:3

  Their father gave them great gifts of silver, of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.

• 2 Chronicles 21:4

  Now when Jehoram had risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 23:11

  Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king!”

• 2 Chronicles 24:23

  At the end of the year, the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their plunder to the king of Damascus.

• 2 Chronicles 26:10

  He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.

• 2 Chronicles 28:7

  Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king.

• 2 Chronicles 30:2

  For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.

• 2 Chronicles 32:28

  also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds.

• 2 Chronicles 32:29

  Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant posessions.

• 2 Chronicles 34:22

  So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter), and they spoke to her to that effect.

• Ezra 7:12

  Artaxerxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the perfect God of heaven. Now

• Esther 3:1

  After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

• Esther 3:2

  All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.

• Esther 5:1

  Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.

• Esther 5:2

  When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.

• Esther 5:3

  Then the king asked her, “What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.”

• Esther 5:4

  Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”

• Esther 5:5

  Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said.” So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

• Esther 5:6

  The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

• Esther 5:7

  Then Esther answered and said, “My petition and my request is this.

• Esther 5:8

  If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.”

• Esther 6:8

  let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a crown royal is set.

• Esther 8:1

  On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

• Esther 8:2

  The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

• Esther 8:15

  Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.

• Esther 10:3

  For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.

• Job 34:18

  Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?

• Psalms 72:1

  By Solomon. God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.

• Psalms 72:2

  He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

• Psalms 72:3

  The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

• Psalms 72:4

  He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

• Psalms 72:10

  The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

• Psalms 89:35

  Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

• Psalms 89:36

  His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

• Psalms 89:37

  It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.

• Psalms 122:5

  For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house.

• Proverbs 8:15

  By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

• Proverbs 16:14

  The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

• Proverbs 16:15

  In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.

• Proverbs 25:2

  It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

• Proverbs 25:5

  Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

• Proverbs 25:6

  Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men;

• Proverbs 25:15

  By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

• Proverbs 29:4

  The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

• Proverbs 29:12

  If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

• Proverbs 29:14

  The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

• Proverbs 31:4

  It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’

• Proverbs 31:5

  lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

• Ecclesiastes 8:2

  I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.

• Ecclesiastes 8:3

  Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

• Ecclesiastes 8:4

  for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

• Ecclesiastes 8:5

  Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.

• Ecclesiastes 10:20

  Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.

• Isaiah 8:21

  They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

• Jeremiah 21:12

  House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

• Jeremiah 34:8

  The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;

• Jeremiah 34:9

  that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.

• Jeremiah 34:10

  All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant, go free, that no one should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:

• Jeremiah 34:11

  but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

• Jeremiah 38:19

  Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.”

• Jeremiah 38:24

  Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know of these words, and you won’t die.

• Jeremiah 38:25

  But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, ‘Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also what the king said to you;’

• Jeremiah 38:26

  then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’”

• Jeremiah 38:27

  Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

• Ezekiel 26:7

  For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and many people.

• Ezekiel 28:2

  Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God —

• Ezekiel 28:9

  Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.

• Ezekiel 45:9

  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 45:10

  You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

• Ezekiel 45:11

  The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer: its measure shall be after the homer.

• Ezekiel 45:12

  The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

• Ezekiel 45:13

  This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;

• Ezekiel 45:14

  and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)

• Ezekiel 45:15

  and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel — for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them, says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 45:16

  All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.

• Ezekiel 45:17

  It shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

• Ezekiel 45:18

  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without defect; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.

• Ezekiel 45:19

  The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it on the door posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.

• Ezekiel 45:20

  So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple: so you shall make atonement for the house.

• Ezekiel 45:21

  In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

• Ezekiel 45:22

  On that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

• Ezekiel 45:23

  The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

• Ezekiel 45:24

  He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

• Ezekiel 45:25

  In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.

• Ezekiel 46:2

  The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

• Ezekiel 46:4

  The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without defect and a ram without defect;

• Ezekiel 46:5

  and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:6

  On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without defect:

• Ezekiel 46:7

  and he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:8

  When the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go out by its way.

• Ezekiel 46:16

  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: If the prince give a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

• Ezekiel 46:17

  But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.

• Ezekiel 46:18

  Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not be scattered every man from his possession.

• Daniel 2:4

  Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live forever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.

• Daniel 2:21

  He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;

• Daniel 2:37

  You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;

• Daniel 4:17

  The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.

• Daniel 5:1

  Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

• Daniel 5:2

  Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

• Daniel 5:3

  Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.

• Daniel 5:4

  They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

• Daniel 5:20

  But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

• Daniel 6:1

  It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;

• Daniel 6:2

  and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account to them, and that the king should have no damage.

• Daniel 6:3

  Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

• Daniel 6:6

  Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever.

• Daniel 6:12

  Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.

• Daniel 6:13

  Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.

• Daniel 6:14

  Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.

• Daniel 6:15

  Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.

• Daniel 6:21

  Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever.

• Hosea 7:5

  On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

• Hosea 8:4

  They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

• Hosea 13:11

  I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.

• Matthew 14:5

  When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

• Matthew 17:24

  When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?”

• Matthew 17:25

  He said, “Yes.” When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”

• Matthew 17:26

  Peter said to him, “From strangers.” Jesus said to him, “Therefore the children are exempt.

• Matthew 17:27

  But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

• Matthew 22:21

  They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

• Matthew 27:29

  They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

• Mark 12:17

  Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him.

• John 19:6

  When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”

• John 19:7

  The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

• John 19:8

  When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.

• John 19:9

  He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

• John 19:10

  Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?”

• John 19:11

  Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

• John 19:12

  At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”

• John 19:13

  When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”

• Acts 12:2

  He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

• Acts 12:3

  When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.

• Acts 25:11

  For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

• Acts 25:12

  Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.”

• Acts 25:20

  Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.