Topic
SCEPTER (SCEPTRE)
A wand used by kings to signify favor or disfavor to those who desired an audience with them EST 5:2; 8:4
Passages on this topic · 10
- Genesis 49:10
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
- Numbers 24:17
I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth.
- Esther 4:11
“All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
- 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 8:4
Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.
- Psalms 2:9
You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
- Isaiah 9:4
For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.
- Isaiah 14:5
Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
- Revelation 2:27
He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:
- Revelation 12:5
She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).