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• Genesis 10:8

  Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

• Genesis 10:9

  He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.

• Genesis 10:10

  The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

• Genesis 12:15

  The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

• Genesis 12:16

  He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

• Genesis 12:17

  Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

• Genesis 12:18

  Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

• Genesis 12:19

  Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”

• Genesis 12:20

  Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.

• Genesis 14:13

  One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and they were allies of Abram.

• Genesis 14:14

  When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

• Genesis 14:15

  He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

• Genesis 14:16

  He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.

• Genesis 14:17

  The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

• Genesis 14:18

  Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

• Genesis 14:19

  He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:

• Genesis 14:20

  and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.

• Genesis 14:21

  The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself.”

• Genesis 14:22

  Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

• Genesis 14:23

  that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

• Genesis 14:24

  I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”

• Genesis 17:6

  I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

• Genesis 17:20

  As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

• Genesis 21:21

  He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 21:22

  At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.

• Genesis 21:23

  Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”

• Genesis 21:24

  Abraham said, “I will swear.”

• Genesis 21:25

  Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

• Genesis 21:26

  Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”

• Genesis 21:27

  Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

• Genesis 21:28

  Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

• Genesis 21:29

  Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?”

• Genesis 21:30

  He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”

• Genesis 21:31

  Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

• Genesis 21:32

  So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

• Genesis 26:6

  Isaac lived in Gerar.

• Genesis 26:7

  The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

• Genesis 26:8

  When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

• Genesis 26:9

  Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”

• Genesis 26:10

  Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”

• Genesis 26:11

  Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

• Genesis 26:26

  Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

• Genesis 26:27

  Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”

• Genesis 26:28

  They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

• Genesis 26:29

  that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”

• Genesis 26:30

  He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

• Genesis 26:31

  They rose up some time in the morning, and swore to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

• Genesis 27:29

  Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

• Genesis 27:37

  Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”

• Genesis 38:24

  About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

• Genesis 41:33

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

• 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.

• Genesis 47:5

  Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

• Genesis 47:6

  The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”

• Genesis 47:7

  Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

• Genesis 47:8

  Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?”

• Genesis 47:9

  Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

• Genesis 47:10

  Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

• Genesis 50:1

  Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.

• Genesis 50:2

  Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

• Genesis 50:3

  Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.

• Genesis 50:4

  When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

• Genesis 50:5

  ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”

• Genesis 50:6

  Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”

• Exodus 6:14

  These are the heads of their fathers’ houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.

• 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 18:20

  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 23:3

  You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.

• Exodus 23:6

  “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

• Exodus 23:7

  “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

• Exodus 23:8

  “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

• Exodus 23:9

  “You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

• Leviticus 19:15

  “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

• Leviticus 24:22

  You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’”

• Numbers 16:15

  Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”

• Numbers 27:16

  “Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

• Numbers 27:17

  who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of Yahweh not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”

• Deuteronomy 1:13

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

• Deuteronomy 1:16

  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 16:18

  You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

• Deuteronomy 16:19

  You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.

• Deuteronomy 16:20

  You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

• 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.

• Deuteronomy 19:18

  and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

• Deuteronomy 19:19

  then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Deuteronomy 24:16

  The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

• Deuteronomy 25:1

  If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

• Deuteronomy 27:19

  ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Joshua 1:7

  Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

• Joshua 1:8

  This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

• 1 Samuel 11:12

  The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”

• 1 Samuel 11:13

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

• 1 Samuel 12:3

  Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

• 1 Samuel 12:4

  They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand.”

• 2 Samuel 23:3

  The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

• 2 Samuel 23:4

  shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

• 1 Kings 3:16

  Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

• 1 Kings 3:17

  The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

• 1 Kings 3:18

  The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.

• 1 Kings 3:19

  This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.

• 1 Kings 3:20

  She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

• 1 Kings 3:21

  When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.”

• 1 Kings 3:22

  The other woman said, “No; but the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No; but the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” Thus they spoke before the king.

• 1 Kings 3:23

  Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”

• 1 Kings 3:24

  The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.

• 1 Kings 3:25

  The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”

• 1 Kings 3:26

  Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

• 1 Kings 3:27

  Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”

• 1 Kings 3:28

  All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

• 1 Kings 10:6

  She said to the king, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts, and of your wisdom.

• 1 Kings 10:7

  However I didn’t believe the words until I came and my eyes had seen it. Behold, not even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.

• 1 Kings 10:8

  Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

• 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 15:11

  Asa did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his father did.

• 1 Kings 15:12

  He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

• 1 Kings 15:13

  He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

• 1 Kings 15:14

  But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.

• 1 Kings 15:15

  He brought into Yahweh’s house the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that he himself had dedicated: silver, gold, and utensils.

• 1 Kings 22:41

  Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

• 1 Kings 22:42

  Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

• 1 Kings 22:43

  He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn aside from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

• 1 Kings 22:44

  Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

• 1 Kings 22:45

  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he fought, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• 1 Kings 22:46

  The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.

• 2 Kings 18:3

  He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

• 2 Kings 20:1

  In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’”

• 2 Kings 20:2

  Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying,

• 2 Kings 20:3

  “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

• 2 Kings 20:4

  Before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part of the city, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,

• 2 Kings 20:5

  “Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 20:6

  I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.”’”

• 2 Kings 20:7

  Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

• 2 Kings 20:8

  Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I will go up to Yahweh’s house the third day?”

• 2 Kings 20:9

  Isaiah said, “This will be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”

• 2 Kings 20:10

  Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”

• 2 Kings 20:11

  Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.

• 2 Chronicles 9:8

  Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore made he you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”

• 2 Chronicles 14:2

  Asa did that which was good and right in Yahweh his God’s eyes;

• 2 Chronicles 14:3

  for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles,

• 2 Chronicles 14:4

  and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command.

• 2 Chronicles 14:5

  Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.

• 2 Chronicles 17:3

  Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals,

• 2 Chronicles 17:4

  but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 17:5

  Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.

• 2 Chronicles 17:6

  His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.

• 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 17:10

  The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

• 2 Chronicles 19:6

  and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.

• 2 Chronicles 19:7

  Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

• 2 Chronicles 20:3

  Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 20:4

  Judah gathered themselves together to seek help from Yahweh. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek Yahweh.

• 2 Chronicles 20:5

  Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in Yahweh’s house, before the new court;

• 2 Chronicles 20:6

  and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

• 2 Chronicles 20:7

  Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?

• 2 Chronicles 20:8

  They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,

• 2 Chronicles 20:9

  ‘If evil comes on us — the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine — we will stand before this house, and before you (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’

• 2 Chronicles 20:10

  Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn’t destroy them;

• 2 Chronicles 20:11

  behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

• 2 Chronicles 20:12

  Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

• 2 Chronicles 20:13

  All Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

• 2 Chronicles 20:14

  Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the sons of Asaph, in the middle of the assembly;

• 2 Chronicles 20:15

  and he said, “Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, king Jehoshaphat. Yahweh says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed because of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.

• 2 Chronicles 20:16

  Tomorrow, go down against them. Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

• 2 Chronicles 20:17

  You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’”

• 2 Chronicles 20:18

  Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshiping Yahweh.

• 2 Chronicles 20:19

  The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice.

• 2 Chronicles 20:20

  They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

• 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 20:22

  When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.

• 2 Chronicles 20:23

  For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them: and when they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another.

• 2 Chronicles 20:24

  When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.

• 2 Chronicles 20:25

  When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away. They took plunder for three days, it was so much.

• 2 Chronicles 20:26

  On the fourth day, they assembled themselves in Beracah Valley, for there they blessed Yahweh. Therefore the name of that place was called “Beracah Valley” to this day.

• 2 Chronicles 20:27

  Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Yahweh had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

• 2 Chronicles 20:28

  They came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments, harps, and trumpets to Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 20:29

  The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 20:30

  So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around.

• Ezra 5:14

  The gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king also took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor.

• Ezra 6:1

  Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.

• Ezra 6:2

  A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:

• Ezra 6:3

  In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits, and its width sixty cubits;

• Ezra 6:4

  with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.

• Ezra 6:5

  Also let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everything to its place. You shall put them in God’s house.

• Ezra 6:6

  Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far from there.

• Ezra 6:7

  Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.

• Ezra 6:8

  Moreover I make a decree what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered.

• Ezra 6:9

  That which they have need of, including young bulls, rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;

• 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 6:11

  I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.

• Ezra 6:12

  May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter the same, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.

• Ezra 7:25

  You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

• 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.

• Psalms 2:10

  Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

• Psalms 2:11

  Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

• 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 72:5

  They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

• Psalms 72:6

  He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

• Psalms 72:7

  In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

• Psalms 72:8

  He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

• Psalms 72:9

  Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.

• Psalms 72:10

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

• Psalms 72:11

  Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

• Psalms 72:12

  For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

• Psalms 72:13

  He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

• Psalms 72:14

  He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

• Psalms 72:15

  They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

• Psalms 72:16

  Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

• Psalms 72:17

  His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

• Psalms 82:2

  “How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.

• Psalms 82:3

  “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

• Psalms 82:4

  Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

• Psalms 148:11

  kings of the earth and all peoples; princes and all judges of the earth;

• Psalms 148:13

  let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

• Proverbs 16:10

  Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

• Proverbs 16:12

  It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

• Proverbs 17:7

  Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

• Proverbs 19:12

  The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

• Proverbs 20:8

  A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

• Proverbs 20:26

  A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.

• Proverbs 20:28

  Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.

• Proverbs 21:1

  The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

• Proverbs 24:23

  These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

• Proverbs 24:24

  He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous”; peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him —

• Proverbs 24:25

  but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.

• Proverbs 24:26

  An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

• 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 25:3

  As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

• Proverbs 25:5

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

• Proverbs 28:2

  In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

• Proverbs 28:16

  A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

• Proverbs 29:2

  When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

• Proverbs 29:4

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

• 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.

• Proverbs 31:8

  Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

• Proverbs 31:9

  Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

• Ecclesiastes 8:4

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

• Ecclesiastes 10:16

  Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

• Ecclesiastes 10:17

  Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

• Isaiah 5:22

  Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

• Isaiah 5:23

  who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

• Isaiah 16:5

  A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

• Isaiah 28:6

  and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

• Isaiah 58:6

  “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

• Isaiah 60:17

  For brass I will bring gold; for iron I will bring silver; for wood, brass, and for stones, iron. I will also make peace your governor, and righteousness your ruler.

• Jeremiah 13:18

  Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory.

• 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 22:1

  Thus said Yahweh: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

• Jeremiah 22:2

  ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.

• Jeremiah 22:3

  Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

• Jonah 3:6

  The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

• Jonah 3:7

  He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

• Zechariah 7:9

  “Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

• Zechariah 7:10

  Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

• Zechariah 8:16

  These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

• Romans 12:8

  or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

• 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.

• Romans 13:2

  Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

• Romans 13:3

  For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

• Romans 13:4

  for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

• Romans 13:5

  Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

• Romans 13:6

  For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, attending continually on this very thing.

• Romans 13:7

  Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

• 1 Timothy 2:1

  I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:

• 1 Timothy 2:2

  for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

• 1 Peter 2:13

  Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

• 1 Peter 2:14

  or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.