23 Bible Verses about Nature Of Kings
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As the heaven is high and the earth is deep so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and it is the glory of a king to search out a matter.
a strutting rooster, a male goat, and a king with his army around him.
In the spring of the year, at the time when kings normally conduct wars, David sent out Joab with his officers and the entire Israelite army. They defeated the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed behind in Jerusalem.
So now do as they say. But seriously warn them and make them aware of the policies of the king who will rule over them."
So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, "Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot. He will appoint for himself leaders of thousands and leaders of fifties, as well as those who plow his ground, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and his chariot equipment.read more.
He will take your daughters to be ointment makers, cooks, and bakers. He will take your best fields and vineyards and give them to his own servants. He will demand a tenth of your seed and of the produce of your vineyards and give it to his administrators and his servants. He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use. He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants. In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won't answer you in that day."
The produce of the land is seized by all of them, even the king is served by the fields.
Next, I decided to consider wisdom, as well as foolish behavior and ideas. For what more can the king's successor do than what the king has already done?
(Lamed) Neither the kings of the earth nor the people of the lands ever thought that enemy or foe would enter the gates of Jerusalem.
"You, O king, are the king of kings. The God of heaven has granted you sovereignty, power, strength, and honor.
Very soon they will say, "We have no king since we did not fear the Lord. But what can a king do for us anyway?"
What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes are in the homes of kings!
"The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.
For I tell you that many prophets and kings longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."
for it is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be in fear, for it does not bear the sword in vain. It is God's servant to administer retribution on the wrongdoer.
Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.
or to governors as those he commissions to punish wrongdoers and praise those who do good.
He said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "Describe for me the men you killed at Tabor." They said, "They were like you. Each one looked like a king's son."
I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.
So they brought one, and he said to them, "Whose image is this, and whose inscription?" They replied, "Caesar's."
"Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They said, "Caesar's."
You will pick up your images of Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your star god, which you made for yourselves,
