'King' in the Bible

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

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

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

And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto 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 next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

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

Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

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

For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

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

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

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

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

The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.

There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.} My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.

For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

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

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

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

{A Psalm for Solomon.} Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.

For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

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

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

The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, 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 mercy endureth for ever:

And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever:

{David's Psalm of praise.} I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

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

A king that sitteth in 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 his throne is upholden by mercy.

He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

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

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

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

Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:

The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

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

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

A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising 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 can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

Where the word of a king is, there 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 besieged 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!

Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the 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 a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall 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: the upright love thee.

While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

Go forth, O ye 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.

Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because 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, the LORD 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, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

For before the child shall have knowledge 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.

Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout 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 golden city ceased!

In the year that king Ahaz died 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, the LORD of hosts.

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

So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee 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: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.