'King' in the Bible

The Lord is King forever and ever;the nations will perish from His land.

He gives great victories to His king;He shows loyalty to His anointed,to David and his descendants forever.

Lord, give victory to the king!May He answer us on the day that we call.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Lord, the king finds joy in Your strength.How greatly he rejoices in Your victory!

For the king relies on the Lord;through the faithful love of the Most Highhe is not shaken.

Lift up your heads, you gates!Rise up, ancient doors!Then the King of glory will come in.

Who is this King of glory?The Lord, strong and mighty,the Lord, mighty in battle.

Lift up your heads, you gates!Rise up, ancient doors!Then the King of glory will come in.

Who is He, this King of glory?The Lord of Hosts,He is the King of glory.Selah

The Lord sat enthroned at the flood;the Lord sits enthroned, King forever.

A king is not saved by a large army;a warrior will not be delivered by great strength.

You are my King, my God,who ordains victories for Jacob.

For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” A Maskil of the sons of Korah. A love song.My heart is moved by a noble themeas I recite my verses to the king;my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

and the king will desire your beauty.Bow down to him, for he is your lord.

In colorful garments she is led to the king;after her, the virgins, her companions, are brought to you.

For Yahweh, the Most High, is awe-inspiring,a great King over all the earth.

Sing praise to God, sing praise;sing praise to our King, sing praise!

Sing a song of wisdom,for God is King of all the earth.

rising splendidly,is the joy of the whole earth.Mount Zion on the slopes of the northis the city of the great King.

But the king will rejoice in God;all who swear by Him will boast,for the mouths of liars will be shut.

People have seen Your procession, God,the procession of my God,my King, in the sanctuary.

Solomonic.God, give Your justice to the kingand Your righteousness to the king’s son.

God my King is from ancient times,performing saving acts on the earth.

Even a sparrow finds a home,and a swallow, a nest for herselfwhere she places her young—near Your altars, Lord of Hosts,my King and my God.

Surely our shield belongs to the Lord,our king to the Holy One of Israel.

For the Lord is a great God,a great King above all gods.

With trumpets and the blast of the ram’s hornshout triumphantlyin the presence of the Lord, our King.

The mighty King loves justice.You have established fairness;You have administered justiceand righteousness in Jacob.

The king sent for him and released him;the ruler of peoples set him free.

Sihon king of the Amorites,Og king of Bashan,and all the kings of Canaan.

Sihon king of the Amorites        His love is eternal.

and Og king of Bashan—        His love is eternal.

A Davidic hymn.I exalt You, my God the King,and praise Your name forever and ever.

Let Israel celebrate its Maker;let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.

The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:

A king favors a wise servant,but his anger falls on a disgraceful one. >

God’s verdict is on the lips of a king;his mouth should not give an unfair judgment.

A king sitting on a throne to judgesifts out all evil with his eyes.

A wise king separates out the wickedand drives the threshing wheel over them.

Loyalty and faithfulness deliver a king;through loyalty he maintains his throne.

The one who loves a pure heartand gracious lips—the king is his friend.

My son, fear the Lord, as well as the king,and don’t associate with rebels,

These too are proverbs of Solomon,which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, copied.

Don’t brag about yourself before the king,and don’t stand in the place of the great;

By justice a king brings stability to a land,but a man who demands “contributions”demolishes it.

A king who judges the poor with fairness—his throne will be established forever.

a servant when he becomes king,a fool when he is stuffed with food,

locusts have no king,yet all of them march in ranks;

a strutting rooster, a goat,and a king at the head of his army.

The words of King Lemuel,an oracle that his mother taught him:

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

I, the Teacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.

Then I turned to consider wisdom, madness, and folly, for what will the man be like who comes after the king? He will do what has already been done.

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer pays attention to warnings.

For he came from prison to be king, even though he was born poor in his kingdom.

The profit from the land is taken by all; the king is served by the field.

There was a small city with few men in it. A great king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege works against it.

Woe to you, land, when your king is a youthand your princes feast in the morning.

Blessed are you, land, when your king is a son of noblesand your princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.

Do not curse the king even in your thoughts,and do not curse a rich person even in your bedroom,for a bird of the sky may carry the message,and a winged creature may report the matter.

Take me with you—let us hurry.Oh, that the king would bring me to his chambers.Y We will rejoice and be glad for you;we will praise your love more than wine.W It is only right that they adore you.

W While the king is on his couch,my perfume releases its fragrance.

King Solomon made a sedan chair for himselfwith wood from Lebanon.

Come out, young women of Zion,and gaze at King Solomon,wearing the crown his mother placed on himthe day of his wedding—the day of his heart’s rejoicing. >

Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel,the hair of your head like purple cloth—a king could be held captive in your tresses.

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and His robe filled the temple.

Then I said:Woe is me for I am ruinedbecause I am a man of unclean lipsand live among a people of unclean lips,and because my eyes have seen the King,the Lord of Hosts.

This took place during the reign of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah king of Judah: Rezin king of Aram, along with Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, waged war against Jerusalem, but he could not succeed.

‘Let us go up against Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it for ourselves. Then we can install Tabeel’s son as king in it.’”

The Lord will bring on you, your people, and the house of your father, such a time as has never been since Ephraim separated from Judah—the king of Assyria is coming.”

On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—to shave the head, the hair on the legs, and to remove the beard as well.

for before the boy knows how to call out father or mother, the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria.”

the Lord will certainly bring against themthe mighty rushing waters of the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria and all his glory.It will overflow its channelsand spill over all its banks.

They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.”

you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say:How the oppressor has quieted down,and how the raging has become quiet!

In the year that King Ahaz died, this oracle came:

In the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it—

so the king of Assyria will lead the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.

And the inhabitants of this coastland will say on that day, ‘Look, this is what has happened to those we relied on and fled to for help to rescue us from the king of Assyria! Now, how will we escape?’”

On that day Tyre will be forgotten for 70 years—the life span of one king. At the end of 70 years, what the song says about the prostitute will happen to Tyre:

The moon will be put to shameand the sun disgraced,because the Lord of Hosts will reign as kingon Mount Zion in Jerusalem,and He will display His gloryin the presence of His elders.

Indeed! Topheth has been readyfor the king for a long time now.Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,with plenty of fire and wood.The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone,kindles it.

Indeed, a king will reign righteously,and rulers will rule justly.

Your eyes will see the King in His beauty;you will see a vast land.

For the Lord is our Judge,the Lord is our lawgiver,the Lord is our King.He will save us.

No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,and all her princes will come to nothing.

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Then the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, along with a massive army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. The Assyrian stood near the conduit of the upper pool, by the road to the Fuller’s Field.

The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah:The great king, the king of Assyria, says this: What are you relying on?

Look, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will enter and pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. This is how Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who trust in him.

Now make a deal with my master, the king of Assyria. I’ll give you 2,000 horses if you’re able to supply riders for them!

Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew:Listen to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

This is what the king says: “Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.

Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord will certainly deliver us! This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’”

Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: “Make peace with me and surrender to me. Then every one of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern

Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you by saying, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the power of the king of Assyria?

When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.

Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke him for the words that Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore offer a prayer for the surviving remnant.’”

So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,