1 Samuel 9:17
When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh answered him, "Here [is] the man about whom I told you! This [is the] one [who] will govern my people."
1 Samuel 3:13
I will make him know that I am about to judge his household forever because of the iniquity that he knew, for his sons [were] bringing curses on themselves, but he did not rebuke them.
1 Samuel 16:6-12
{When they came}, he saw Eliab and said, "Surely his anointed one [is] before Yahweh!"
2 Samuel 23:6-7
But evil persons [are] like thorns cast aside; all of them, because they cannot be picked up in the hand.
Nehemiah 13:19
So when it became dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors be shut and said that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I appointed some of my young men over the gates [to prevent] any {goods} being brought in on the day of the Sabbath.
Nehemiah 13:25
So I quarreled with them and cursed them and beat some of their men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath by God: "Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
Hosea 13:11
I gave you a king in my anger, and I took [him] in my wrath.
Acts 13:21
And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, [for] forty years.
Romans 13:3-4
For rulers are not a [cause of] terror for a good deed, but for bad [conduct]. So do you want not to be afraid of authority? Do what [is] good, and you will have praise from it,