Proverbs 20:26
A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.
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Proverbs 20:26
A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.
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Joshua 15:1
Now the part of the land marked out for the children of Judah by families, went up to the edge of Edom, as far as the waste land of Zin to the south, to the farthest point of it on the south.
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1 Samuel 23:3
And David's men said to him, Even here in Judah we are full of fear: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
1 Samuel 23:4
Then David put the question to the Lord again, and the Lord answering said, Up! go down to Keilah; for I will give the Philistines into your hands.
2 Samuel 23:4
It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.
Psalms 92:9
For see! your haters, O Lord, will be put to death; all the workers of evil will be put to flight;
Psalms 99:4
The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.
Proverbs 16:10
Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.
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 32:1
See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.
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2 Samuel 4:9
And David made answer to Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, By the living Lord, who has kept me safe from all my trouble,
2 Samuel 4:10
When one came to me with the news of Saul's death, in the belief that it would be good news, I took him and put him to death in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news:
2 Samuel 4:11
How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?
2 Samuel 4:12
And David gave orders to his young men and they put them to death, cutting off their hands and their feet and hanging them up by the side of the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and put it in its last resting-place with Abner's body in Hebron.
Psalms 101:5
I will put to death anyone who says evil of his neighbour secretly; the man with a high look and a heart of pride is disgusting to me.
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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.
Nehemiah 13:25
And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
Nehemiah 13:28
And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the chief priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: so I sent him away from me.
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;
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2 Samuel 16:5
And when King David came to Bahurim, a man of Saul's family named Shimei, the son of Gera, came out from there, calling curses after him.
2 Samuel 16:6
And he sent stones at David and at all the king's servants and at all the people and at all the men of war by his side, on the right hand and on the left.
2 Samuel 16:7
And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing:
2 Samuel 16:8
The Lord has sent punishment on you for all the blood of the family of Saul, whose kingdom you have taken; and the Lord has given the kingdom to Absalom, your son: now you yourself are taken in your evil, because you are a man of blood.
2 Samuel 16:9
Then Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said to the king, Is this dead dog to go on cursing my lord the king? let me go over and take off his head.
1 Kings 2:8
Now you have with you Shimei, the son of Gera the Benjamite of Bahurim, who put a bitter curse on me on the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to see me at Jordan, and I gave him my oath by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death by the sword.
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Job 19:2
How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
Job 34:24
He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.
Psalms 2:9
They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.
Psalms 94:5
Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,
Jeremiah 51:20
You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;
Jeremiah 51:21
With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken;
Jeremiah 51:22
With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken;
Jeremiah 51:23
With you the keeper of sheep with his flock will be broken, and with you the farmer and his oxen will be broken, and with you captains and rulers will be broken.
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Psalms 75:10
By him will all the horns of the sinners be cut off; but the horns of the upright will be lifted up.
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.
Jeremiah 21:12
O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.
Micah 3:1
And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?
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.
Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.
Micah 3:9
Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.
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Proverbs 20:7
An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!
Proverbs 20:9
Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?
Proverbs 20:11
Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.
Proverbs 20:15
There is gold and a store of corals: but the lips of knowledge are a jewel of great price.
Proverbs 20:18
Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.
Proverbs 20:24
A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?
Proverbs 20:25
It is a danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them.
Proverbs 20:26
A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.
Proverbs 20:27
The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.
Proverbs 20:29
The glory of young men is their strength, and the honour of old men is their grey hairs.
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Psalms 1:4
The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
Psalms 68:3
But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy.
Psalms 83:13
O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.
Isaiah 17:13
But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.
Isaiah 25:10
For in this mountain will the hand of the Lord come to rest, and Moab will be crushed down in his place, even as the dry stems of the grain are crushed under foot in the waste place.
Isaiah 28:29
This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.
Isaiah 41:15
See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.
Malachi 3:2
But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
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