Ecclesiastes 8:3
Do not rush out of the king's presence in haste -- do not delay when the matter is unpleasant, for he can do whatever he pleases.
Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the anger of the ruler flares up against you, do not resign from your position, for a calm response can undo great offenses.
1 Kings 1:50-52
Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar.
1 Kings 2:21-24
She said, "Allow Abishag the Shunammite to be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife."
Proverbs 14:29
The one who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.
Proverbs 16:14-15
A king's wrath is like a messenger of death, but a wise person appeases it.
Proverbs 30:31
a strutting rooster, a male goat, and a king with his army around him.
Isaiah 48:4
I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.
Jeremiah 44:16-17
"We will not listen to what you claim the Lord has spoken to us!
Daniel 4:35
All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him, 'What have you done?'
Daniel 5:19
Due to the greatness that he bestowed on him, all peoples, nations, and language groups were trembling with fear before him. He killed whom he wished, he spared whom he wished, he exalted whom he wished, and he brought low whom he wished.
Acts 5:8-9
Peter said to her, "Tell me, were the two of you paid this amount for the land?" Sapphira said, "Yes, that much."