'Ruled' in the Bible
You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you.
If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:
For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?
Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh.
Men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority: from the time when my name comes to their ears, they will be ruled by me.
They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.
From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.
They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;
If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;
And he gave them into the hands of the nations; and they were ruled by their haters.
The Lord is my heritage: I have said that I would be ruled by your words.
Give me life in your mercy; so that I may be ruled by the unchanging word of your mouth.
They are ruled this day by your decisions; for all things are your servants.
I have been ruled by your orders; for all my ways are before you.
So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.
The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.
And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.
We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.
And they came in and took it for their heritage, but they did not give ear to your voice, and were not ruled by your law; they have done nothing of all you gave them orders to do: so you have made all this evil come on them:
And he will be judge between great peoples, and strong nations far away will be ruled by his decisions; their swords will be hammered into plough-blades and their spears into vine-knives: nations will no longer be lifting up their swords against one another, and knowledge of war will have gone for ever.