73 Bible Verses about Rulers
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But Jesus, having called them, said, Ye know that the rulers rule over their nations, and the great exercise authority over them.
And Jesus having called them, says to them, Ye know that they thinking to be first of the nations rule over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them.
And he will take the chiefs of hundreds, and the powerful, and those ruling over the people, and all the people of the land, and he will bring down the king from the house of Jehovah: and they will come in the midst of the highest gate of the king's house: and they will set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.
The kings of the earth will place themselves, and the princes sat down together against Jehovah and against his Messiah.
In the transgression of a land many its chiefs: and by a man understanding to know, the place shall be extended.
Send ye a lamb to the ruler to the land, from the rock of the desert to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
The king called with strength to bring up the enchanters, the Chaldeans and the diviners. The king answered and said to the wise of Babel, Whatever man that shall read this writing, and will show to me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and a necklace of gold upon his neck, and shall rule the third in the kingdom.
Now will I be thy king, and he shall save thee in all thy cities, and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Thou shalt give to me a king and princes.
And when they bring you to assemblies, and beginnings, and powers, have no anxiety how or what ye allege for justification, or what ye say:
And he injuring the neighbor repulsed him, having said, Who set thee a ruler and judge over us?
And he will say, Who set thee for a chief man and judge over us? dost thou think to kill me as thou didst kill the Egyptian? and Moses will be afraid, and will say, Surely, this word was known.
But we speak wisdom among the perfected: and the wisdom not of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, they being left unemployed: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, hidden, which God determined beforehand, before the times to our glory: Which none of the rulers of this world knew: for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
And he will call a famine upon the land: he broke all the support of bread. He sent a man before them, Joseph, for a servant was he sold: They humbled his feet with the fetter: his soul came into iron:read more.
Even to the time his word came: the sayings of Jehovah purified him. The king sent and he will bring him down; the ruler of the peoples, and he will loose him. He set him lord to his house, and ruler over all his possessions: To bind his chiefs in his soul, and to make his old men wise.
Then the king multiplied to Daniel, and gave to him many a great gift, and gave him power over all the province of Babel, and chief of the prefects over all the wise of Babel
For rulers are not the terror of good works, but of evil. And wilt thou not fear the power do good, and thou shalt have approbation of it:
Remind them to be subordinate to beginnings and powers, to yield obedience to authority, to be prepared for every good work,
These the sons of Ishmael, and these their names, in their villages, and in their fortresses; twelve princes, according to their nation.
And Shechem will see her, the son of Hamor the Hivite, chief of the land; will take her, and lie with her, and will humble her.
And Pharaoh will say to Joseph, See, I gave thee over all the land of Egypt
And now not you sent me here, but God: and he placed me for a father to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Thus in the chiefs of Babel interceding, sending to him to seek out the sign which was in the land, God left him, to try him, to know all in his heart
Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart was lifted up, and thou wilt say, I am God, I sat upon the seat of God in the heart of the seas; and thou art man and not God, and thou wilt give thy heart as the heart of God.
And I will give him into the hand of the God of the nations; he shall do his doing to him: I drove him out for his injustice.
In one year to Darius son of Ahasuerus, from the seed of Media who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans.
And took him out of all his pressures, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and set him leader over Egypt and his whole house.
From Sihor, which is upon the face of Egypt, even to the bound of Ekron to the north, it will be reckoned to the Canaanite; five lords of Philisteim; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, and the Avites:
Five princes of Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivite dwelling in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-Hermon.
And three thousand men of Judah will go down to the cleft of the rock Etam, and they will say to Samson, Knewest thou not that Philisteim is ruling over us? and what this thou didst to us? and he will say to them, As they did to me, so did I to them.
And Delilah will see that he announced to her all his heart, and she will send and call to the princes of Philisteim, saying, Come up to me this time; for he announced to her all his heart And the princes of Philisteim will come up to her, and will bring up the silver in their hand.
And they will send and gather all the princes of Philisteim to them, and they will say, What shall we do to the ark of the God of Israel? And they will say, To Gath shall the ark of the God of Israel be turned about: and they will turn the ark of the God of Israel about
And the five princes of Philisteim saw, and they will turn back to Ekron in that day.
And the princes of the rovers passing over by hundreds and by thousands: and David and his men passing over at last with Achish.
And from Manasseh there fell to David in his going with the rovers against Saul to war; and he helped them not, for in counsel the princes of the rovers sent him away, saying, With our heads he will fall to his lord Saul.
And all the tribes of Israel will come to David to Hebron, and they will say, saying, Behold us thy bone and thy flesh. Also yesterday, also the third day, in Saul being king over us, thou wert bringing out and bringing in Israel And Jehovah will say to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be for leader over Israel.
And all Israel will gather together to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we thy bone and thy flesh. Also yesterday also the third day, also in Saul being king thou wert bringing forth and bringing in Israel: and Jehovah thy God will say to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be leader over my people Israel
And Zadok the priest anointed him there, and Nathan the prophet, for king over Israel: and strike ye upon the trumpet and say, King Solomon shall live. And come up after him, and he coming, and he shall sit upon my throne, and he shall reign instead of me: and I commanded him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.
And I will not take all the kingdom from his hand, for I will set him chief all the days of his life for sake of David my servant whom I chose him. because he watched my commands and my laws.
For Judah was strong over his brethren, and for a leader from him; and the birthright to Joseph:)
Now thou shalt crowd thyself together, O daughter of a troop: besieging there against us; with a rod they will strike the judge of Israel upon the cheek.
And the king of Israel will say, Take Micaiah and turn him back to Amon, chief of the city, and to Joash son of the king.
And the king of Israel will say, Take ye Micaiah and turn him back to Amon chief of the city, and to Joash son of the king;
And upon their hand held fast Raphia, son of Hur, chief of half the circuit of Jerusalem.
Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.
And his mighty one was from himself, and his ruler shall go forth from his midst.; and I caused him to draw near, and he came near to me: for who this pledging his heart to approach to me? says Jehovah.
And saying, Hear now, ye heads of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?
And thou Bethlehem, land of Judah, by no means art thou least among the leaders of Judah for out of thee shall come forth the leader, who shall feed my people.
And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Teacher, having done what, shall I inherit eternal life?
And it was on the morrow, their rulers, and elders, and scribes, were gathered together at Jerusalem,
And Pilate having called together the chief priests and rulers and people,
And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to the judgment of death, and crucified him.
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
For they dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, and the voices of the prophets which being read in every sabbath, having judged, they filled up.
And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the chief of the kings of the earth. To him having loved us, and washed us from our sins in his blood,
And thou, house of bread, of Ephratah, for being small among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall come forth to me he being ruler in Israel; and his goings forth from of old from the days of eternity.
And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; Thus says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Which the blessed and only sovereign shall show in his own times, the King of those reigning, and Lord of those ruling;
Let every soul be placed under the protecting powers. For there is no power except from God: and the powers being, were ordered by God. So he opposing the power, has resisted the arrangement of God: and they having resisted shall receive to themselves judgment.
And David will say to Michal, Before Jehovah who chose in me above thy father and above all his house, to appoint me leader over the people of Jehovah, over Israel: and I played before Jehovah.
And in all where I went among all the sons of Israel spake I a word with one of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why built ye not to me a house of cedars? And now thus shalt thou say to my servant, to David, Thus said Jehovah of armies, I took thee from quiet, from after the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
In all that I went about in all Israel, spake I the word with one of the judges of Israel that I commanded to feed my people, saying, Wherefore built ye not to me a house of cedars And now, thus shalt thou say to my servant, to David, Thus said Jehovah of armies, I took thee from the dwelling from behind the flocks to be leader over my people Israel:
Saying to Cyrus, My shepherd, and he shall complete all my delight: and saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and the temple shall be founded.
And now I gave all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, my servant; and also the beasts of the field gave I to him to serve him.
Topics on Rulers
Gentile Rulers
Matthew 20:25But Jesus, having called them, said, Ye know that the rulers rule over their nations, and the great exercise authority over them.
Honouring Rulers
1 Timothy 5:17Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.
Named Gentile Rulers
Acts 25:13-26And certain days having intervined, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Cesarea, having saluted Festus.
Rulers Of A Fourth
Luke 3:1Now in the fifteenth year of the supremacy of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being leader of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother being tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
Rulers Of Edom
Genesis 36:31And these the kings which reigned in the land of Edom, before a king reigned over the sons of Israel.
Wicked Rulers
Proverbs 29:2In the increasing of the just the people will rejoice: and in the ruling of the unjust one the people will groan.