'King' in the Bible

On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the fortress was brought before the king.

And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the fortress, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? And what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee; and what is thy request further? and it shall be done.

And Esther said, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-morrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews near and far that were in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus,

and when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head; and they hanged him and his sons on the gallows.

And king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land and the isles of the sea.

And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

For Mordecai the Jew was second to king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the welfare of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tent, and it shall lead him away to the king of terrors:

I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.

Shall one say to a king, Belial? to nobles, Wicked?

He beholdeth all high things; he is king over all the proud beasts.

And I have anointed my king upon Zion, the hill of my holiness.

Hearken unto the voice of my crying, my king and my God; for to thee will I pray.

Jehovah is King for ever and ever: the nations have perished out of his land.

It is he who giveth great deliverances to his king, and sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

Save, Jehovah! Let the king answer us in the day we call.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} The king shall joy in thy strength, Jehovah; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice.

For the king confideth in Jehovah: and through the loving-kindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.

Lift up your heads, ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

Who is this King of glory? Jehovah strong and mighty, Jehovah mighty in battle.

Lift up your heads, ye gates; yea, lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

Who is he, this King of glory? Jehovah of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

Jehovah sitteth upon the flood; yea, Jehovah sitteth as king for ever.

The king is not saved by the multitude of his forces; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

Thou thyself art my king, O God: command deliverance for Jacob.

{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; a song of the Beloved.} My heart is welling forth with a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

And the king will desire thy beauty; for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him.

She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of embroidery; the virgins behind her, her companions, shall be brought in unto thee:

For Jehovah, the Most High, is terrible, a great king over all the earth.

Sing psalms of God, sing psalms; sing psalms unto our King, sing psalms!

For God is the King of all the earth; sing psalms with understanding.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years shall be as many generations.

But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: for the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

{For Solomon.} O God, give the king thy judgments, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.

But God is my king of old, accomplishing deliverances in the midst of the earth.

Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she layeth her young, thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, my King and my God.

For Jehovah is our shield, and the Holy One of Israel, our king.

For Jehovah is a great God, and a great king above all gods.

With trumpets and sound of cornet, make a joyful noise before the King, Jehovah.

And the strength of the king that loveth justice. Thou hast established equity: it is thou that executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

The king sent and loosed him the ruler of peoples and let him go free.

Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan;

Sihon king of the Amorites, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever,

And Og king of Bashan, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever;

{A Psalm of praise. Of David.} I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

Let Israel rejoice in his Maker; let the sons of Zion be joyful in their King.

Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:

An oracle is on the lips of the king: his mouth will not err in judgment.

The fury of a king is as messengers of death; but a wise man will pacify it.

The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

A king sitting on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

Mercy and truth preserve the king; and he upholdeth his throne by mercy.

He that loveth pureness of heart, upon whose lips is grace, the king is his friend.

My son, fear Jehovah and the king: meddle not with them that are given to change.

These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah transcribed.

take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

Put not thyself forward in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of the great;

A king by just judgment establisheth the land; but he that taketh gifts overthroweth it.

A king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands;

a horse girt in the loins; or the he-goat; and a king, against whom none can rise up.

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him:

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what shall the man do that cometh after the king? that which hath already been done.

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth no more how to be admonished.

Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king himself is dependent upon the field.

because the word of a king is power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and encompassed it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Curse not the king, no, not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for the bird of the air will carry the voice, and that which hath wings will tell the matter.

Draw me, we will run after thee! The king hath brought me into his chambers We will be glad and rejoice in thee, We will remember thy love more than wine. They love thee uprightly.

While the king is at his table, My spikenard sendeth forth its fragrance.

King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon.

Go forth, daughters of Zion, And behold king Solomon With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the locks of thy head like purple; The king is fettered by thy ringlets!

In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.

And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but they were not able to fight against it.

Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach therein for us, and set up a king therein the son of Tabeal;

Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days which have not come since the day when Ephraim turned away from Judah even the king of Assyria.

In that day will the Lord, with a razor which is hired beyond the river, with the king of Assyria, shave the head and the hair of the feet, yea, the beard also will it take away.

For before the lad knoweth to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

therefore behold, the Lord will bring up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall mount up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass when they are hungry, they will fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and will gaze upward:

And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, the exactress of gold ceased!

In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden:

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, (and he fought against Ashdod and took it,)

so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

And the inhabitants of this coast shall say in that day, Behold, such is our confidence, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it shall be for Tyre as the harlot's song.