2 Samuel 8:15

2 Samuel 8:15
And David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.

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Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;

Romans 13:4
For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.

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Genesis 15:18
In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Genesis 17:6
I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

1 Samuel 12:12
And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.

1 Kings 4:21
And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.

Ezra 4:20
Further, there have been great kings in Jerusalem, ruling over all the country across the river, to whom they gave taxes and payments in goods and forced payments.

Ezra 5:11
And they made answer to us, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house which was put up in times long past and was designed and made complete by a great king of Israel.

Psalms 50:2
From Zion, most beautiful of places, God has sent out his light.

Lamentations 2:15
All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

Ezekiel 16:13
So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful.

Hebrews 11:16
But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.

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Exodus 20:12
Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Exodus 21:17
Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

Proverbs 30:17
The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

Matthew 15:4
For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

Acts 23:5
And Paul said, Brother, I had no idea that he was the high priest: for it has been said, You may not say evil about the ruler of your people.

1 Peter 2:17
Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.

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1 Samuel 8:9
Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler.

1 Samuel 15:33
And Samuel said, As your sword has made women without children, so now your mother will be without children among women. And Agag was cut up by Samuel, bone from bone, before the Lord in Gilgal.

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1 Samuel 13:13
And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.

2 Samuel 15:4
And more than this, Absalom said, If only I was made judge in the land, so that every man who has any cause or question might come to me, and I would give a right decision for him!

2 Samuel 23:2
The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.

1 Kings 10:8
Happy are your wives, happy are these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.

2 Kings 15:5
And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.

Psalms 72:12
For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.

Psalms 72:13
He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need.

Psalms 72:14
He will keep their souls free from evil designs and violent attacks; and their blood will be of value in his eyes.

Proverbs 8:16
Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.

Isaiah 11:1
And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.

Isaiah 49:8
This is the word of the Lord: I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: and I will keep you safe, and will make you a glory for the people, putting the land in order, and giving them the heritages which now are waste;

Matthew 11:5
The blind see; those who were not able to, are walking; lepers are made clean; those who were without hearing, now have their ears open; the dead come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

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2 Samuel 2:4
And the men of Judah came there, and with the holy oil made David king over the people of Judah. And word came to David that it was the men of Jabesh-gilead who put Saul's body in its last resting-place.

2 Samuel 3:12
And Abner sent men to David at Hebron, saying, Make an agreement with me, and I will give you my support in getting all Israel on your side.

2 Samuel 5:3
So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.

2 Samuel 5:5
Ruling over Judah in Hebron for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, over all Israel and Judah, for thirty-three years.

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1 Samuel 14:47
Now when Saul had taken his place as ruler of Israel, he made war on those who were against him on every side, Moab and the Ammonites and Edom and the kings of Zobah and the Philistines: and whichever way he went, he overcame them.

2 Samuel 8:2
And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.

2 Samuel 8:3
And David overcame Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to make his power seen by the River.

2 Samuel 8:4
And David took from him one thousand, seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and David had the leg-muscles of the horses cut, only keeping enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.

2 Samuel 8:5
And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand of the Aramaeans.

2 Samuel 8:6
And David put armed forces in Aram of Damascus: and the Aramaeans became servants to David and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

2 Samuel 8:7
And David took their gold body-covers from the servants of Hadadezer and took them to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 8:8
And from Tebah and Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David took a great store of brass.

2 Samuel 8:9
And when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer,

2 Samuel 8:10
He sent his son Hadoram to David, with words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had wars with Tou; and Hadoram took with him vessels of silver and gold and brass:

2 Samuel 8:11
These King David made holy to the Lord, together with the silver and gold which he had taken from the nations he had overcome--

2 Samuel 8:12
The nations of Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon and the Philistines and the Amalekites and the goods he had taken from Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

2 Samuel 8:13
And David got great honour for himself, when he came back, by the destruction of Edom in the valley of Salt, to the number of eighteen thousand men.

1 Chronicles 18:1
And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them, and took Gath with its daughter-towns out of the hands of the Philistines.

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1 Kings 9:4
As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

1 Kings 11:6
And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did.

1 Kings 15:3
And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

1 Kings 15:4
But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;

1 Kings 15:5
Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

2 Kings 14:3
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.

2 Kings 16:2
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.

2 Kings 18:3
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.

2 Chronicles 17:3
And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

2 Chronicles 34:2
And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

Psalms 132:1
A Song of the going up. Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles;

Acts 13:36
Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:

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1 Chronicles 15:14
So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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2 Chronicles 19:9
And he gave them their orders, saying, You are to do your work in the fear of the Lord, in good faith and with a true heart.

Psalms 72:3
May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness.

Psalms 72:4
May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.

Psalms 82:3
Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.

Psalms 82:4
Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.

Isaiah 1:17
Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

Jeremiah 22:16
He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:16
In those days, Judah will have salvation and Jerusalem will be safe: and this is the name which will be given to her: The Lord is our righteousness.

Amos 5:15
Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.

Zechariah 7:9
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:

John 7:24
Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

Hebrews 1:8
But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness.

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1 Samuel 18:14
And in all his undertakings David did wisely; and the Lord was with him.

1 Samuel 18:15
And when Saul saw how wisely he did, he was in fear of him.

1 Samuel 22:14
Then Ahimelech answering said to the king, Who among all your servants is so true to you as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is a captain of your armed men, and has a place of honour in your house?

2 Chronicles 30:12
And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 31:20
This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 31:21
And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.

Psalms 75:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. A Psalm. Of Asaph. A Song. To you, O God, we give praise, to you we give praise: and those who give honour to your name make clear your works of power.

Psalms 119:106
I have made an oath and kept it, to be guided by your upright decisions.

Psalms 119:115
Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.

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1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.

1 Samuel 24:11
And see, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: for the fact that I took off the skirt of your robe and did not put you to death is witness that I have no evil purpose, and I have done you no wrong, though you are waiting for my life to take it.

1 Samuel 24:12
May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

Psalms 7:3
O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

Psalms 7:4
If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

Psalms 7:5
Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

Psalms 18:20
The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

Psalms 18:21
For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

Psalms 18:22
For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

Psalms 18:23
And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

Psalms 18:24
Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

Acts 25:11
If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.

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2 Kings 23:25
Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.

Psalms 132:2
How he made an oath to the Lord, and gave his word to the great God of Jacob, saying,

Psalms 132:3
Truly, I will not come into my house, or go to my bed,

Psalms 132:4
I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs,

Psalms 132:5
Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.

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Isaiah 1:21
The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

Isaiah 5:7
For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

Ezekiel 22:3
And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!

Ezekiel 22:4
You are responsible for the blood drained out by you, and you are unclean through the images which you have made; and you have made your day come near, and the time of your judging has come; for this cause I have made you a name of shame to the nations and a cause of laughing to all countries.

Ezekiel 22:5
Those who are near and those who are far from you will make sport of you; your name is unclean, you are full of sounds of fear.

Micah 3:2
You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;

Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

Zephaniah 3:1
Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!

Zephaniah 3:2
She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.

Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

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1 Kings 2:12
And Solomon took his place on the seat of David his father, and his kingdom was made safe and strong.

1 Kings 7:7
Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

Proverbs 14:34
By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.

Proverbs 16:12
Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.

Proverbs 20:8
A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.

Proverbs 20:28
Mercy and good faith keep the king safe, and the seat of his power is based on upright acts.

Proverbs 25:5
Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.

Proverbs 29:14
The king who is a true judge in the cause of the poor, will be safe for ever on the seat of his power.

Isaiah 16:5
Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness.

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Ezekiel 22:6
See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.

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1 Samuel 16:1
And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons.

1 Samuel 16:10
And Jesse made his seven sons come before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, The Lord has not taken any of these.

1 Samuel 16:12
So he sent and made him come in. Now he had red hair and beautiful eyes and pleasing looks. And the Lord said, Come, put the oil on him, for this is he.

1 Chronicles 5:2
Though Judah became stronger than his brothers, and from him came the ruler, the birthright was Joseph's:)

Psalms 78:68
But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

Psalms 78:69
And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

Micah 5:2
And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

Matthew 2:6
You Beth-lehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the chiefs of Judah: out of you will come a ruler, who will be the keeper of my people Israel.

Hebrews 7:14
Because it is clear that our Lord comes out of Judah, and Moses said nothing about priests from that tribe.

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Matthew 4:16
The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

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Genesis 18:19
For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

Exodus 18:21
But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;

Leviticus 19:15
Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

Deuteronomy 1:16
And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.

Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?

1 Kings 4:2
And these were his chief men: Azariah, the son of Zadok, was the priest;

Job 37:23
There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.

Psalms 82:2
How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)

Isaiah 56:1
The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.

Acts 13:22
And having put him on one side, he made David their king, to whom he gave witness, saying, I have taken David, the son of Jesse, a man dear to my heart, who will do all my pleasure.

1 Corinthians 12:28
And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues.

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1 Samuel 24:13
There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

1 Samuel 24:14
After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.

1 Samuel 24:15
So let the Lord be judge, and give a decision between me and you, and see and give support to my cause, and keep me from falling into your hands.

1 Samuel 25:28
And may the sin of your servant have forgiveness: for the Lord will certainly make your family strong, because my lord is fighting in the Lord's war; and no evil will be seen in you all your days.

2 Samuel 9:1
And David said, Is there still anyone of Saul's family living, so that I may be a friend to him, because of Jonathan?

Acts 21:16
And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, taking a certain Mnason of Cyprus, one of the early disciples, in whose house we were to be living.

Acts 25:10
And Paul said, I am before the seat of Caesar's authority where it is right for me to be judged: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you are well able to see.

2 Corinthians 1:12
For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

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Colossians 2:15
Having made himself free from the rule of authorities and powers, he put them openly to shame, glorying over them in it.

Revelation 12:10
And a great voice in heaven came to my ears, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: because he who says evil against our brothers before our God day and night is forced down.

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1 Chronicles 16:39
And Zadok the priest, with his brothers the priests, before the House of the Lord in the high place at Gibeon;

Amos 5:24
But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Revelation 19:11
And the heaven was open; and I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it was named Certain and True; and he is judging and making war in righteousness.

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