23 Bible Verses about Nature Of Kings
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The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
A greyhound; a male goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
Now therefore hearken unto their voice: however protest solemnly unto them, and show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint himself captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war, and equipment for his chariots.read more.
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your grain, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and you shall be his servants. And you shall cry out in that day because of your king which you shall have chosen; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served from the field.
And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can a man do that comes after the king? even that which has been already done.
The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
You, O king, are a king of kings: for the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then could a king do for us?
But what went you out to see? A man clothed in soft clothes? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.
For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.
For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, an avenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.
But we speak wisdom among them that are mature: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nothing:
Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom you slew at Tabor? And they answered, As you are, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt like a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.
And they brought it. And he said unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
Show me a penny. Whose image and superscription has it? They answered and said, Caesar's.
But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your star god, your images, which you made for yourselves.
