Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.

Bible References

That he

Daniel 3:4
Then a herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,
Daniel 4:22
It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth to heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
Jeremiah 25:9
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 27:5
I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my out-stretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed meet to me.
Habakkuk 2:5
Yes also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire, as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth to him all nations, and collecteth to him all people:
Romans 13:1
Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but from God: the powers that are, are ordained by God.

Whom he would he slew

Daniel 2:12
For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 3:6
And whoever shall not fall down and worship shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Proverbs 16:14
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
John 19:11
Jesus answered, Thou couldst have no power against me; except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me to thee hath the greater sin.