23 Bible Verses about Nature Of Kings

The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.

It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.

The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.

Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab and his servants and all Israel with him; and they made waste the land of the children of Ammon, and took up their position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem.

Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler.

And Samuel said all these words of the Lord to the people who were desiring a king. And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages; And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.read more.
Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers. He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants. He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants. He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work. He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants. Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.

It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.

To the kings of the earth and to all the people of the world it did not seem possible that the attackers and the haters would go into the doors of Jerusalem.

You, O King, king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory,

Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?

But what went you out to see? a man delicately clothed? Those who have fair robes are in kings' houses.

The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a feast when his son was married,

For I say to you that numbers of prophets and kings have had a desire to see the things which you see, and have not seen them, and to have knowledge of the things which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.

But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:

And those of the rulers who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of those who do well.

Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, Where are the men whom you put to death at Tabor? And they gave answer, As you are, so were they; every one of them was like a king's son.

For he says, Are not all my captains kings?

I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...

And they gave him one. And he said to them, Whose is this image and name on it? And they said to him, Caesar's.

Let me see a penny. Whose image and name are on it? And they said, Caesar's.

Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.