37 Bible Verses about Leaders

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Psalm 109:8

His days shall be few; his charge another shall take.

Isaiah 3:4

And I gave boys their chiefs, and the petulant shall rule over them.

Numbers 11:16

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the old men of Israel, whom thou knewest that they were old men of the people, and their scribes; and take them to the tent of appointment, and they shall stand there with thee.

Matthew 20:26

But it shall not be so among you; but whoever should wish to be great among you, let him be your attendant;

Exodus 18:25

And Moses will choose men of ability from all Israel, and he will give them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, chiefs of ten.

Isaiah 1:26

And I will turn back thy judges as in the beginning, and thy counsellors as in the beginning: after this he shall call to thee, The city of justice, the faithful city.

Galatians 2:6

And from them seeming to be something, (whatever they were, it concerns me nothing: God receives not man's face:) for they seeming entrusted nothing to me:

Proverbs 29:2

In the increasing of the just the people will rejoice: and in the ruling of the unjust one the people will groan.

Isaiah 9:16

And there will be those leading this people causing them to wander; and those being led being swallowed up.

John 10:34

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said; Ye are gods?

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Leaders » Garments of prophets » General references to

2 Chronicles 20:20

And they will rise early in the morning and go forth to the desert of Tekoa: and in their going forth Jehoshaphat stood, and he will say, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabiting Jerusalem; Believe in Jehovah your God and ye shall be firm; believe in his prophets and prosper.

1 Kings 18:4

And it will be in Jezebel's cutting off the prophets of Jehovah, and Obadiaha will take a hundred prophets, and hide fifty men in a cave, and he nourished them with bread and water.)

Matthew 13:57

And they were scandalized in him. And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in his house.

Leaders » FALSE » Called seers

2 Chronicles 19:2

And Jehu son of Hanani the seer will go forth to his face, and say to king Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou love to help to the unjust, and to those hating Jehovah? and in this, wrath upon you from before Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 35:15

And those singing, sons of Asaph, upon their station according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the kings seer; and the porters at gate and gate; not for them to depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

1 Chronicles 29:29

And the first and the last words of David the king, behold them written upon the words of Samuel the seer, and upon the words of Nathan the prophet, and upon the words of Gad the seer,

2 Samuel 24:11

And David will rise in the morning, and the word of Jehovah was to Gad the prophet, seer of David, saying,

2 Chronicles 16:7

And in that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and he will say to him, In thy relying upon the king of Aram, and thou didst not rely upon Jehovah thy God, for this the power of the king of Aram escaped from thy hand.

Leaders » Dues of » Food of

Leviticus 10:17

Wherefore ate ye not the sin in the holy place? for it is holy of holies, and he gave it to you to lift up the iniquity of the assembly, and to expiate for them before Jehovah.

Exodus 29:32

And Aaron shall eat and his sons, the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket by the door of the of appointment

Leviticus 10:12

And Moses will speak to Aaron, and to Eleazar, and to Ithamar, his sons being left, Take ye the gift remaining from the sacrifices of Jehovah, and eat it unleavened by the altar: for it is holy of holies.

Leviticus 6:16

And the remainder from it Aaron and his sons shall eat: unleavened shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the enclosure of the tent of appointment they shall eat it

Leviticus 7:6

Every male among the priests shall eat it: in the holy place it shall be eaten: it is holy of holies.

Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Corrupt priests

John 19:6

When therefore the chief priests and attendants saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify, crucify. Pilate says to them, Take ye him, and crucify; for I find no fault in him.

Matthew 27:41

And likewise also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said,

Micah 3:11

Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets vain-glorious men of treacheries: her priests defiled the holy place, they violated the law.

Mark 15:11

And the chief priests moved the crowd, that he would rather loose Barabbas to them.

Leaders » Heal persecution of » Divinely appointed

Leaders » Support of unfaithful » Affliction of

1 Peter 4:6

For also for this was the good news announced to the dead, that truly they might be judged according to men in the flesh, and live according to God in the spirit.

Revelation 14:6

And I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the lasting good news to announce to them dwelling upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,

Leaders » Elders » Governmental

Exodus 24:1

And he said to Moses, Come up to Jehovah, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy from the old men of Israel; and worship from far off.

Exodus 3:16

Come, and gather together the old men of Israel, and say to them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, was seen to me, the God of Abraham, Isaak and Jacob, saying, Reviewing, I reviewed you and what was done to you in Egypt

Exodus 4:29

And Moses will go, and Aaron, and they will gather together all the old men of the sons of Israel.

Exodus 19:7

And Moses will go and will call to the old men of the people, and he will set before them all these words that Jehovah commanded him.

Joshua 23:2

And Joshua will call to all Israel, to his old men and to his heads and to his judges and to his scribes, and he will say to them, I have become old; I came into days:

Leaders » Corrupt condemned » Idolatrous, examples of

2 Kings 11:18

And all the people of the land will go into the house of Baal, and lay it waste; his altars and his images they brake in pieces diligently, and Mattan, priest of Baal, they slew before the altars. And the priest will set overseers over the house of Jehovah.

1 Kings 12:31

And he will make a house of heights, and be will make priests from the ends of the people who were not of the sons of Levi.

1 Kings 13:2

And be will call upon the altar in the word of Jehovah, and he will say, O altar, altar! thus said Jehovah, Behold, a son was born to the house of David, Josiah his name; and he sacrificed upon thee, the priests of the heights burning incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.

2 Kings 23:20

And he will sacrifice all the priests of the heights which were there upon the altars, and he will burn the bones of man upon them, and he will turn back to Jerusalem.

Judges 17:5

And the man Micah to him a house of gods; and he will make an ephod and a teraphim, and he will fill the hand of one of his sons, and he will be to him for priest

Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » False teachers, warnings against

1 Timothy 6:3

If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion;

1 Timothy 1:7

Wishing to be teachers of the law; neither understanding what they say, nor of certain things they are assured.

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report;

Leaders » Men of God » Sent as divine messengers

Matthew 22:3

And he sent his servants to those having been called to the nuptial feast: and they would not come.

Zechariah 2:8

For thus said Jehovah of armies: After glory he sent me to the nations spoiling you: for he touching upon you touched the gate of his eye.

Zechariah 4:9

The hands of Zerubbabel founded this house, and his hands shall complete it; and thou knewest that Jehovah of armies sent me to you.

Numbers 16:28

And Moses will say, By this shall ye know that Jehovah sent me to do all these works; for not from my heart

Isaiah 48:16

Draw ye near to me, hear this; I spake not in secret in the beginning; from the time of its being, there was I: and now the Lord Jehovah sent me, and his spirit

Leaders » Religious priests » Should be holy

2 Chronicles 6:41

And now arise, O Jehovah God, to thy rest, thou, and the ark of thy strength: thy priests, O Jehovah God, shall be clothed with salvation, and thy merciful ones shall rejoice in good.

Leviticus 21:6

They shall be holy to their God, and profane not the name of their God: for the sacrifices of Jehovah, and the bread of their God they bring: and they were holy.

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of the priest shall watch knowledge, and they shall seek the law from his mouth: for he is the messenger of Jehovah of armies.

Exodus 19:22

And also the priests drawing near to Jehovah, shall be consecrated, lest Jehovah shall break forth upon them.

Leaders » Support of » Unfaithful ministers, general references to

Micah 3:11

Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.

Jeremiah 6:13

For from their little even to their great, every one plundering, plundered; and from the prophet and even to the priest every one did falsehood.

Isaiah 56:10

Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Jeremiah 23:11

For also the prophets, also the priests were polluted; also in my house I found their evil, says Jehovah.

Lamentations 2:14

Thy prophets saw for thee vanity and a foolish thing, and they uncovered not upon thine iniquity to turn back thy captivity; and they will see for thee burdens of falsehood and seductions.

Leaders » Preaching » Christ the theme of

Acts 4:2

Being exercised because they taught the people, and announced in Jesus the rising up from the dead.

Acts 8:35

And Philip having opened his mouth, and begun from this writing, announced to him the good news, Jesus.

Acts 9:20

And quickly in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus, that he is the Son of God.

Leaders » Support of » Self-support as practised by paul

Acts 18:3

And because being of the same trade, he remained with them, and wrought: for they were by trade tentmakers.

Acts 20:34

And ye yourselves know, that to my necessities, and to those being with me, these hands served.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

Neither ate we the bread of any as a gift; but in fatigue and toil working night and day also, not to overload any of you:

Acts 28:30

And Paul remained two whole years in his own wages, and received all going to him,

More verses: 1 Corinthians 9:15

Leaders » Men of God » Men raised up as deliverers of israel

Judges 3:31

And after him was Shamgar, son of Anath; and he will smite the Philistines, six hundred men with an ox-goad; and he also will deliver Israel

1 Samuel 9:16

About the time to-morrow I will send to thee a man from the land of Benjamin, and anoint him for leader over my people Israel; he shall save my people from the hand of Philisteim; for I saw my people, for their cry came to me.

Judges 13:5

For behold thee pregnant, and thou bearest a son; and a razor shall not come up upon his head, for the boy shall be consecrated to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of Philisteim.

Nehemiah 9:27

And thou wilt give them into the hand of their adversaries, and they will press upon them: and in the time of their straits they will cry to thee, and thou wilt hear from the heavens; and according to thy many compassion thou wilt give to them saviours, and they will save them from the hand of their adversaries.

Judges 3:9

And the sons of Israel will cry to Jehovah, and Jehovah will raise up a saviour to the sons of Israel, and he will save them, Othniel, son of Kenaz, Caleb's brother younger than he.

More verses: Judges 2:16 Judges 9:17

Leaders » Religious priests » General references to

Joshua 3:6

And Joshua will say to the priests, saying, Lift up the ark of the covenant and pass through before the people. And they will lift up the ark of the covenant and will go before the people.

Exodus 24:5

And he will send forth young men sons of Israel, and they will bring up burnt-offerings, and they will sacrifice sacrifices of peace to Jehovah of bullocks.

2 Chronicles 29:16

And the priests will come to within the house of Jehovah to cleanse, and they will bring forth all the uncleanness which they found in the temple of Jehovah to the enclosure of the house of Jehovah. And the Levites will take to bring forth to the torrent Kidron without

Exodus 18:1

And Jethro, priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, will hear all which God did to Moses and to Israel his people, for Jehovah brought forth Israel out of Egypt:

More verses: 2 Chronicles 11:13

Leaders » Preaching » Encouraged

Luke 9:60

And Jesus said to him, Permit the dead to inter their own. dead; and thou, having gone, announce the kingdom of God.

More verses: Luke 9:2 Acts 5:20

Leaders » Religious priests » Laws in regard to

Leviticus 10:9

Wine and strong drink thou shalt not drink, thou and thy sons with thee, in your going in to the tent of appointment; and ye shall not die: a law forever to your generations.

Exodus 40:15

And anoint them as thou didst anoint their father, and they were priests to me; and it was to be to them an anointing for the priesthood forever for their generations.

Ezra 7:24

And making known to you that all the priests and Levites, the players, the porters, the Nethinims, and those serving this house of God, tribute, excise and toll, not being permitted to be lifted up upon them.

Nehemiah 7:65

And the Tirshatha will say to them that they shall not eat from the holy of holies till a priest stood up for Lights and Truth.

More verses: Leviticus 21:1

Leaders » Support of » In the Christian church

Leaders » Preaching » As shepherds to feed the flock

John 21:17

He says to him the third time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved that he said the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him, Lord, thou knowest all; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep.

Jeremiah 23:4

And I set up shepherds over them, and they fed them; and they shall no more fear, and they shall not be terrified, and they shall not be reviewed, says Jehovah.

More verses: 1 Peter 5:2

Leaders » FALSE » Prophets in the Christian church

Acts 13:1

And certain prophets and teachers were in the church being in Antioch; as Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Acts 11:27

In these days came down prophets from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Leaders » Preaching » As teachers of the word

1 Timothy 6:2

And let them having faithful masters not despise, for they are brethren; but rather let them serve, because they are faithful and dearly beloved, they having mutually received of the beneficence. These things teach and beseech.

Leaders » Responsibility of » Select reading

Ezekiel 33:6

And if the watchman shall see the sword coming, and he struck not upon the trumpet, and the people were not warned; and the sword shall come and take a soul from them, he was taken away in his iniquity, and his blood I will seek from the watchman's hand.

Ezekiel 3:1-17

And he will say to me, Son of man, eat what thou shalt find; eat this roll, and go speak to the house of Israel. And I shall open my mouth, and he will cause me to eat this roll. And he will say to me, Son of man, thou shalt cause thy belly to eat, and thou shalt fill thy bowels with this roll which I give to thee. And eating it, it will be in my mouth as honey for sweetness. read more.
And he will say to me, Son of man, go; come to the house of Israel and speak my word to them. For not to a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue; thou art sent to the house of Israel; Not to many peoples deep of lip and heavy of tongue which thou wilt not hear their words If to them I sent thee, they will hear to thee. And the house of Israel will not hear to thee; for they are not willing to hear to me: for all the house of Israel are strong of forehead, and they are hard of heart. Behold, I gave thy face strong over against their face, and thy forehead strong over against their forehead. As the diamond strong above the rock I gave thy forehead: thou shalt not fear them, and thou shalt not be terrified from their face, for they are a house of contradiction. And he will say to me, Son of man, all my words which I shall speak to thee take into thy heart, and with thine ears hear thou. And go, come to the captivity, to the sons of my people, and speak to them, and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah; if they will hear, and if they will desist And the spirit will lift me up, and I shall hear behind me a voice of a great shaking: Praised be the glory of Jehovah from his place. And the voice of the wings of the living creatures, kissing one to the other, and the voice of the wheels over against them, and the voice of a great shaking. And the spirit lifted me up, and it will take me and I shall go bitter, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me. And I shall go to the captivity, the hill of the green ears, those dwelling at the river Chebar, and where they are sitting there, I shall sit there seven days, being astonished in the midst of them. And it will be from the end of seven days, and the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, Son of man, I gave thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and hear thou the word from my mouth, and admonish them from me.

2 Corinthians 2:16

Truly to those an odor of death into death; and to those an odor of life into life. And who sufficient for these things?

Leaders » Dues of » High priests

Exodus 28:1

And thou, bring thou Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from the midst of the sons of Israel, for him to be a priest to me, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, sons of Aaron.

Zechariah 3:1

And he will cause me to see Joshua the great priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah, and the adversary standing upon his right hand for his adversary.

Hebrews 5:5

So also Christ honoured not himself, to become chief priest; but he having spoken to him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.

Leviticus 21:10

And the great priest from his brethren which the anointing oil shall be poured upon his head, and he filled his hand to put on the garments, his head he shall not uncover, and his garments he shall not rend.

Leaders » FALSE » Schools of

Daniel 1:4

Children whom not any blemish in them, and good of aspect, and understanding in all wisdom, and knowing knowledge, and understanding intelligence, and to whom power in them to stand in the king's temple, and to teach them the writing and tongue of the chaldees

2 Chronicles 17:9

And they will teach in Judah, and with them the book of the law of Jehovah, and they will turn about in all the cities of Judah, and they will teach among the people.

2 Kings 2:5

And the sons of the prophets which were in Jericho will come near to Elisha and say to him, Knewest thou that this day Jehovah takes thy lord from above thy head? And he will say, I also knew; be silent

2 Kings 4:38

And Elisha turned back to Gilgal. And the famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets sitting before him: and he will say to his boy, Place the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.

2 Kings 6:1

And the sons of the prophets will say to Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell there before thee is narrow for us.

Leaders » Apostles » Call of to special work

Mark 1:20

And quickly he called them: and having left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hirelings; they went after him.

Luke 6:13

And when it was day, he called to his disciples: and having chosen twelve from them, and he named them, the sent;

John 1:43

The morrow Jesus wished to go forth to Galilee, and he finds Philip, and he says to him, Follow me.

More verses: Acts 22:21

Leaders » Elders » Jewish

Matthew 26:57

And they having held Jesus, brought to Caiaphas the chief priest, where the scribes and elders were gathered together.

Matthew 15:2

Wherefore do thy disciples pass by the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Matthew 21:23

And to him, having come into the temple to him teaching, came the chief priests and elders of the people, saying, By what authority doest thou these? and who gave thee this authority?

Mark 15:1

And quickly the chief priests having made counsel with the more ancient and scribes and the whole council, having bound Jesus, led away, and delivered to Pilate.

Acts 22:5

As also the chief priest testifies of me, and all the council of elders: and whose letters to the brethren having received, I went to Damascus, going to bring there the bound to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.

Leaders » Preaching » Spiritual watchmen

Isaiah 62:6

I appointed those watching over thy walls, O Jerusalem: all the day and all the night continually they shall not be silent: ye remembering Jehovah, no stillness to you.

Ezekiel 3:17

Son of man, I gave thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and hear thou the word from my mouth, and admonish them from me.

Jeremiah 6:17

And I set up watchers over you, Attend ye to the voice of the trumpet And they will say, We will not attend.

Leaders » FALSE » Incognito

Judges 6:8

And Jehovah will send forth a man, a prophet, to the sons of Israel, and he will say to them, Thus said Jehovah the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and I will bring you out of the house of servants;

1 Samuel 2:27

And a man of God will come to Eli and say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Revealing myself, I was revealed to the house of thy father in their being in Egypt to the house of Pharaoh.

1 Kings 13:11

And one prophet, an old man, dwelt in the house of God; and his sons will come and relate to him all the work which the man of God did that day in the house of God: the words which he spake to the king, and they will relate them to their father.

1 Kings 20:35

And a man, one of the sons of the prophets, said to his neighbor in the word of Jehovah, Strike me now. And the man refused to strike him.

Leaders » Solemn charges given » Paul to timothy

1 Timothy 5:21

I call to witness before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that thou watch these things without preference, doing nothing by bending.

1 Timothy 6:13

I beseech thee before God, making all things alive, and Christ Jesus, he having witnessed to Pontius Pilate the good confession;

2 Timothy 4:1

I call to witness before God there fore, and the Lord Jesus Christ, being about to judge the living and the dead according to his appearance and his kingdom;

Leaders » Apostles » Names of

Acts 1:13

And when they came in, they went up into an upper room, where were remaining also Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas of James.

Matthew 10:2

And the names of the twelve sent are these: first, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James, he of Zebedee and John his brother;

Luke 6:14

Simon, (and he named him Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

Mark 3:16

And he set to Simon the name Peter;

Leaders » Courageous reformers, rebuke sinful rulers » The incorruptibility of, in refusing gifts

1 Kings 13:8

And the man of God will say to the king, If thou wilt give to me half thy house I will not go with thee, and I will not eat bread and I will not drink water in this place:

Daniel 5:17

At that time Daniel answered and said before the king, Thy gifts to be to thyself, and give thy presents to another; but I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

2 Kings 5:15-16

And he will turn back to the man of God, he and all his camp; and he will come and stand before him, and say, Behold now, I knew that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel: and now take now a blessing from thy servant And he will say, Jehovah lives whom I stood before him if I will take. And he will press upon him to take, and he will refuse.

Leaders » Solemn charges given » Moses to joshua

Deuteronomy 31:23

And he will command Joshua the son of Nun, and will say, Be strong and active: for thou shalt bring in the sons of Israel to the land which I sware to them, and I will be with thee.

Numbers 27:23

And he will place his hands upon him and command him as . Jehovah spake by the hand of Moses.

Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Prey upon the flock instead of feeding it

Ezekiel 34:2-3

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, To the shepherds, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo! to the shepherds of Israel who were feeding themselves: shall not the shepherds feed the sheep? Ye will eat the fat, and ye will put on the wool, ye will sacrifice the fatlings: ye will not feed the sheep.

Zechariah 11:17

Wo! to the empty shepherd forsaking the sheep; the sword upon his arm, and upon his right eye: and his arm being dried up, shall be dried up, and his right eye being dim, shall be dim.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as

Malachi 4:1

For behold, the day coming, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all doing injustice were straw: and the day coming burnt them, said Jehovah of armies, that it shall not leave to them root and branch.

Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Edom: We heard a report from Jehovah, a messenger was sent among the nations; arise ye, and we will rise up against her for war.

2 Kings 14:25

He turned back the bound of Is reel from the entrance of Hamath, even to the sea of the sterile region, according to the word of Jehovah the God of Israel which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai the prophet, which was of the winepress of the pit.

Hosea 14:1

Turn back, O Israel, even to Jehovah thy God, for thou wert weak in thine iniquity.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Iddo

2 Chronicles 13:22

And the rest of the words of Abijah, and his ways, and his words, being written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Shemaiah

2 Chronicles 12:5

And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and the chiefs of Judah who were gathered together to Jerusalem from the face of Shishak, and he will say to them, Thus said Jehovah, Ye forsook me, and I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » moses

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Obed

2 Chronicles 28:9

And a prophet to Jehovah was there, Oded his name: and he will go forth before the army coming to Shomeron, and say to them, Behold, in the anger of Jehovah the God of your fathers upon Judah he gave them into your hand, and ye will slay among them in wrath reaching even to the heavens

Leaders » Solemn charges given » Jehoshaphat to leaders of judah

2 Chronicles 19:9

And he will command upon them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of Jehovah, with faithfulness and with the whole heart.

Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Insentiate and pleasure-loving

Isaiah 56:10-12

Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity. Come ye, I will take wine, and we will drink strong drink to excess; and the morrow being as this day, the remainder great exceedingly.

Leaders » Humility, Examples Of » King david

1 Samuel 18:18

And David will say to Saul, Who am I? and who was my father's family in Isarel that I shall be son-in-law to the king?

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Hananiah

Jeremiah 28:17

And Hananiah the prophet will die in this year in the seventh month.

Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Lead the sheep astray

Jeremiah 50:6

My people were lost sheep: their shepherds caused them to wander, they turned them away in the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their place to lie down.

Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Scatter the flock

Jeremiah 23:2

For this, thus said Jehovah God of Israel, against the shepherds feeding my people: Ye scattered my flock and ye will thrust them away, and ye reviewed them not: behold me reviewing over you the evil of your doings, says Jehovah.

Leaders » Courageous reformers, rebuke sinful rulers » Micaiah before king ahab

1 Kings 22:14

And Micaiah will say, Jehovah lives, for what Jehovah shall say to me I will speak it.

Leaders » Courageous reformers, rebuke sinful rulers » Nathan before king david

2 Samuel 12:7

And Nathan will say to David, Thou the man. Thus said Jehovah the God of Israel, I anointed thee for king over Israel, and I delivered thee from the hand of Saul;

Leaders » Courageous reformers, rebuke sinful rulers » Elijah before king ahab

1 Kings 21:20

And Ahab will say to Elijah, Didst thou find me, O mine enemy? And he will say I found: because thou didst sell thyself to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah,

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Zechariah

Zechariah 1:1

In the eighth month, in the second year to Darius, was the word of Jehovah to Zechariah son of Barachiah, son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Ahijah

1 Kings 11:29

And it will be in that time, and Jeroboam went forth from Jerusalem, and Ahijah the Shilonite will find him going in the way; and he being covered with a new garment; and they two alone in the field.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Joshua

1 Kings 16:34

In his days Hiel of the house of God, built Jericho: in Abiram his first born he will found it, and in Segub his younger he set up its gates, according to the word of Jehovah which he spake by the hand of Joshua son of Nun.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Elijah

1 Kings 18:36

And it will be in the going up of the gift, and Elijah the prophet will draw near and say, Jehovah God of Abraham, Isaak, and Israel, this day it shall be known that thou art God in Israel, and I thy servant, and by thy words I did all these words.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Elisha

1 Kings 19:16

And Jehu, son of Nimshi, shalt thou anoint for king over Israel: and Elisha son of Shaphat, from Abel-Me-holah, It thou anoint for prophet in thy stead.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » samuel

1 Samuel 3:20

And all Israel knew from Dan to the Well of the Oath, that Samuel was faithful for a prophet to Jehovah.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Daniel

Matthew 24:15

Therefore, when ye see the abomination of devastation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (let him reading, understand:)

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » David

Matthew 13:35

So that that spoken by the prophet might be filled up; saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will declare things having been hid from the foundation of the world.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Eldad

Numbers 11:26

And two men remained in the camp, the name of the one Eldad, and the name of the second, Medad: and the spirit will encamp upon them; and they among those being written, and they will not go forth to the tent, and they will prophesy in the camp.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Medad

Numbers 11:26

And two men remained in the camp, the name of the one Eldad, and the name of the second, Medad: and the spirit will encamp upon them; and they among those being written, and they will not go forth to the tent, and they will prophesy in the camp.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Gad

1 Samuel 22:5

And the prophet Gad will say to David, Thou shalt not dwell in the fortress; go, and come in for thyself to the land of Judah. And David will go and come to the thicket of Hareth.

Leaders » Humility, Examples Of » King saul

1 Samuel 9:21

And Saul will answer and say, Am not I a son of the Jaminite, from the littleness of the tribes of Israel, and my family small more than all the families of the tribes of Benjamin and wherefore spakest thou to me according to this word?

Leaders » Humility, Examples Of » Jeremiah

Leaders » Courageous reformers, rebuke sinful rulers » Peter and john before the sanhedrin

Acts 4:18-20

And having called them, they enjoined them universally not to utter neither to teach in the name of Jesus. And Peter and John having answered to them, said, If it is just before God to hear you rather than God, judge ye. For we cannot, the things we have seen and heard, not speak.

Leaders » Courageous reformers, rebuke sinful rulers » John the baptist before herod

Leaders » Courageous reformers, rebuke sinful rulers » Elisha before king jehoram

2 Kings 3:14

And Elisha will say, Jehovah of armies lives whom I stand before him, for unless I accept the face of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, if I will look to thee and if I will, see thee

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Jeremiah

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Micaiah

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel will say to Jehoshaphat, Yet one man to seek Jehovah from him, and I hated him, for he will not prophesy good concerning me, but evil, Micaiah, son of Imlah And Jehoshaphat will say, The king shall not say thus.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Abraham

Genesis 20:7

And now turn back to the man the woman; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and do thou live: and if thou turn her not back, know that dying, thou shalt die, thou and all which are to thee.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Isaiah

2 Kings 19:2

And he will send Eliakim who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the old men of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Nathan

2 Samuel 7:2

And the king will say to Nathan the prophet, See now, me dwelling in a house of cedars, and the ark of God dwelling in midst of the curtains.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » balaam

Numbers 22:5

And he will send messengers to Balaam, son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the sons of his people, to call to him, saying, Behold, a people came forth out of Egypt: behold, it covered the eye of the earth, and it dwelt from before me.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Jehu

1 Kings 16:7

And also by the hand of Jehu son of Hanani the prophet, the word of Jehovah was against Baasha and against his house, and for all the evil which he did in the eyes of Jehovah to irritate him in the work of his hands to be as the house of Jeroboam, and because he smote him.

Leaders » Solemn charges given » Christ to the disciples

Matthew 10:5

These twelve Jesus sent, having announced to them, saying, Go not in the way of the nations, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye not.

Leaders » Humility, Examples Of » John the baptist

Matthew 3:14

And John hindered him, saying, I have need to be immersed by thee, and dost thou come to me?

Leaders » Humility, Examples Of » moses

Leaders » Humility, Examples Of » King solomon

1 Kings 3:7

And now, Jehovah my God, thou madest thy servant king instead of David my father and I a little boy, shall not know to go out and come in.

Leaders » Courageous reformers, rebuke sinful rulers » Daniel before king belshazzar

Daniel 5:22

And thou his son, O Belshazzar, didst not humble thy heart because that thou knewest all this;

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Ezekiel

Ezekiel 1:3

The word of Jehovah being, was to Jehezhel, son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldean by the river Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah will be there upon him.

Leaders » Solemn charges given » David to solomon

1 Kings 2:1

And the days of David will draw near to die; and he will command Solomon his son, saying,

Leaders » Humility, Examples Of » gideon

Judges 6:15

And he will say to him, With leave, my Lord, by what shall I save Israel? behold, my thousand destitute in Manasseh, and I the least in my father's house.

Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Hirelings forsake the sheep

John 10:12

But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Aaron

Exodus 7:1

And Jehovah will say to Moses, See, I gave thee a God to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Agabus

Acts 21:10

And we remaining many days, a certain prophet came down from Judea, by name Agabus.

Leaders » Solemn charges given » Paul to the ephesian elders

Leaders » Humility, Examples Of » Isaiah

Leaders » Courageous reformers, rebuke sinful rulers » Stephen before the council

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » John the baptist

Luke 7:28

For I say to you, Among the begotten of women none is a greater prophet than John the Immerser; and the less in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Leaders » Names of persons spoken of as » Zacharias

Luke 1:67

And Zacharias his father, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

Men of God » Leaders » Sent as divine messengers

Matthew 22:3

And he sent his servants to those having been called to the nuptial feast: and they would not come.

Zechariah 2:8

For thus said Jehovah of armies: After glory he sent me to the nations spoiling you: for he touching upon you touched the gate of his eye.

Zechariah 4:9

The hands of Zerubbabel founded this house, and his hands shall complete it; and thou knewest that Jehovah of armies sent me to you.

Numbers 16:28

And Moses will say, By this shall ye know that Jehovah sent me to do all these works; for not from my heart

Isaiah 48:16

Draw ye near to me, hear this; I spake not in secret in the beginning; from the time of its being, there was I: and now the Lord Jehovah sent me, and his spirit

Men of God » Leaders

Haggai 2:23

In that day, says Jehovah of armies, I will take thee, O Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, my servant, says Jehovah, and I set thee as a seal; for I chose in thee, says Jehovah of armies.

1 Corinthians 1:27-28

But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong; And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:

Women » Leaders » Liberality of

John 12:3

Then Mary having taken a pound of perfumed oil of spikenard, very precious, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hairs: and the house was filled with the smell of the perfumed oil.

Exodus 35:25

And every woman wise of heart spun with her hands, and they will bring the winning, the cerulean purple, and the red purple, the double scarlet and the byssus.

Acts 9:39

And Peter having risen came with them. Whom having approached, they brought into the upper room: and all the widows stood before him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, being with them.

Luke 8:2-3

And certain women, who were cured from evil spirits and weaknesses, Mary called Magdalene, from whom went forth seven demons, And Joanna wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who served him from possessions to them.

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Assembling Leaders

Exodus 3:16

Come, and gather together the old men of Israel, and say to them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, was seen to me, the God of Abraham, Isaak and Jacob, saying, Reviewing, I reviewed you and what was done to you in Egypt

elders, as community leaders

Exodus 19:7

And Moses will go and will call to the old men of the people, and he will set before them all these words that Jehovah commanded him.

Exchanging Of Leaders

Job 34:24

He shall break in pieces the mighty, not searching out, and he will set others in their stead.

Leaders Sinning

1 Samuel 2:17

And the sin of the boys will be exceedingly great before Jehovah, for the men despised the gifts of Jehovah.

Leaders, Political

Judges 2:16

And Jehovah will raise up judges, and they will save them from the hand of their plunderers.

Watchfulness, Of Leaders

Ezekiel 3:17

Son of man, I gave thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and hear thou the word from my mouth, and admonish them from me.

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