Judges 8:23
But Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; Yahweh will rule over you."
1 Samuel 10:19
But you today have rejected your God who always delivers you from all of your calamities and your distresses. You have said to him, 'No, but you must appoint a king over us!' So then present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes and by your clans."
1 Samuel 12:12
"And when you saw that Nahash, the king of [the] {Ammonites}, was coming against you, you said to me, 'No! A king shall reign over us,' although Yahweh your God [is] your king.
Judges 2:18
And when Yahweh raised leaders for them, Yahweh was with the leader, and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the leader, for Yahweh was moved by their groaning because of their persecutors and oppressors.
Judges 10:18
The people, the ones commanding Gilead, {said to each other}, "Who [is] the man that will begin to fight against the {Ammonites}? He will be as head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
Judges 11:9-11
So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me back {to fight} against the {Ammonites}, and Yahweh gives them {over to me}, will I be your head?"
1 Samuel 8:6-7
But the matter {was displeasing to Samuel} when they said, "Give us a king to judge us," so Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
Isaiah 33:22
For Yahweh [is] our judge; Yahweh [is] our lawgiver. Yahweh [is] our king; he [is the one who] will save us.
Isaiah 63:19
We have been since antiquity; you did not rule them; {they were not called by your name}.
Luke 22:24-27
And a dispute also occurred among them as to which of them was recognized as being greatest.
2 Corinthians 1:24
Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.
1 Peter 5:3
and not as lording it over {those under your care}, but being examples for the flock.