TOPICAL BIBLE
Rulers
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Isaiah 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;Isaiah 10:2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!Isaiah 10:3What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?Isaiah 14:4that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”Isaiah 14:5Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,Isaiah 14:6who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.Isaiah 14:7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.Isaiah 14:8Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”Isaiah 14:9Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.Isaiah 14:10They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”Isaiah 14:11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.Isaiah 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!Isaiah 14:13You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”Isaiah 14:15Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.Isaiah 14:16Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;Isaiah 14:17who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”Isaiah 14:18All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.Isaiah 14:19But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.Isaiah 14:20You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.Isaiah 16:5A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.Isaiah 28:6and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.Isaiah 28:14Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:Isaiah 28:15“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”Isaiah 29:20For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—Isaiah 29:21who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.Isaiah 30:33For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.Isaiah 33:1Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed; and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of betrayal, you will be betrayed.Isaiah 40:23who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.Isaiah 52:5“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.Isaiah 58:6“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?Isaiah 59:14Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.Isaiah 59:15Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.Isaiah 60:17For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make your officers peace, and righteousness your ruler.Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t judge the right of the needy.Jeremiah 5:29“Shall I not punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory.Jeremiah 21:12House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.Jeremiah 22:1Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,Jeremiah 22:2Say, Hear the word of Yahweh, king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter in by these gates.Jeremiah 22:3Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.Jeremiah 38:5Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he who can do anything against you.Jeremiah 38:6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.Daniel 2:1In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.Daniel 2:2Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the enchanters, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.Daniel 2:3The king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.Daniel 2:4Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live forever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.Daniel 2:5The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.Daniel 2:6But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.Daniel 2:7They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.Daniel 2:8The king answered, I know of a certainty that you would gain time, because you see the thing is gone from me.Daniel 2:9But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.Daniel 2:10The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.Daniel 2:11It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.Daniel 2:12For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.Daniel 2:13So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.Daniel 3:1Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.Daniel 3:2Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.Daniel 3:3Then the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.