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Passages on this topic · 63

• Exodus 22:28

  “You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

• Numbers 27:20

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

• Joshua 1:16

  They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

• Joshua 1:17

  Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses.

• Joshua 1:18

  Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”

• 1 Samuel 24:6

  He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”

• 1 Samuel 24:7

  So David checked his men with these words, and didn’t allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

• 1 Samuel 24:8

  David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and showed respect.

• 1 Samuel 24:9

  David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

• 1 Samuel 24:10

  Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.

• 1 Samuel 26:6

  Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”

• 1 Samuel 26:7

  So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.

• 1 Samuel 26:8

  Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

• 1 Samuel 26:9

  David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

• 1 Samuel 26:10

  David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

• 1 Samuel 26:11

  Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go.”

• 1 Samuel 26:12

  So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head; and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh was fallen on them.

• 1 Samuel 26:13

  Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;

• 1 Samuel 26:14

  and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, “Don’t you answer, Abner?” Then Abner answered, “Who are you who cries to the king?”

• 1 Samuel 26:15

  David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

• 1 Samuel 26:16

  This thing isn’t good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”

• 2 Samuel 1:14

  David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”

• 2 Samuel 3:36

  All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

• 2 Samuel 3:37

  So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.

• 2 Samuel 11:9

  But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.

• 2 Samuel 15:21

  Ittai answered the king, and said, “As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”

• 2 Samuel 15:23

  All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

• 2 Samuel 15:30

  David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

• 2 Samuel 17:15

  Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.

• 2 Samuel 17:16

  Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’”

• 2 Samuel 18:3

  But the people said, “You shall not go out; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.”

• 2 Samuel 18:12

  The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’

• 2 Samuel 18:13

  Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”

• 2 Samuel 19:5

  Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;

• 2 Samuel 19:6

  in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared today, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died today, then it would have pleased you well.

• 2 Samuel 19:32

  Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

• 2 Samuel 21:17

  But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”

• 2 Samuel 23:15

  David longed, and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

• 2 Samuel 23:16

  The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.

• 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 11:5

  He commanded them, saying, “This is what you must do: a third of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;

• 2 Kings 11:6

  a third of you shall be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.

• 2 Kings 11:7

  The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of Yahweh’s house around the king.

• 2 Kings 11:8

  You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.”

• 2 Kings 11:9

  The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

• 2 Kings 11:10

  The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David’s, which were in Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 11:11

  The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king.

• 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!”

• 1 Chronicles 12:38

  All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.

• Ezra 6:10

  that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

• Ezra 7:26

  Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

• 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.

• Esther 2:21

  In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 2:22

  This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.

• Esther 2:23

  When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.

• Job 34:18

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

• Proverbs 17:11

  An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

• Proverbs 24:21

  My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious:

• Ecclesiastes 8:2

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

• Ecclesiastes 10:4

  If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

• Romans 13:1

  Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

• Titus 3:1

  Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

• 2 Peter 2:10

  but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;