Proverbs 29:4

Proverbs 29:4
A king, by right rule, makes the land safe; but one full of desires makes it a waste.

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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;

Exodus 23:8
Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

Deuteronomy 16:19
You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.

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

Proverbs 17:8
An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.

Proverbs 17:23
A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

Proverbs 18:5
To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

Proverbs 18:16
A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.

Proverbs 25:14
As clouds and wind without rain, so is one who takes credit for an offering he has not given.

Proverbs 28:3
A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.

Proverbs 28:16
The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.

Isaiah 33:15
He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;

Isaiah 33:16
He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

Micah 7:3
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

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Deuteronomy 19:16
If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong,

Deuteronomy 19:17
Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;

Deuteronomy 19:18
And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother,

Deuteronomy 19:19
Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 19:20
And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you.

Deuteronomy 19:21
Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

2 Samuel 19:29
And the king said, Say nothing more about these things. I say, Let there be a division of the land between Ziba and you.

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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.

Psalms 89:14
The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.

Psalms 99:4
The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

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

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;

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1 Samuel 17:17
And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

1 Samuel 17:18
And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are.

1 Samuel 25:18
Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.

2 Samuel 16:1
And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.

2 Samuel 17:27
Now when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi, the son of Nahash of Rabbah, the Ammonite, and Machir, the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

2 Samuel 17:28
Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,

2 Samuel 17:29
And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

2 Samuel 19:32
Now Barzillai was a very old man, as much as eighty years old: and he had given the king everything he had need of, while he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

1 Chronicles 12:40
And those who were near, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came with food on asses and camels and mules and oxen, with meal for food and cakes of figs and masses of grapes, and wine and oil and oxen and sheep in great numbers, for there was joy in Israel.

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1 Kings 2:45
But a blessing will be on King Solomon, and the kingdom of David will keep its place before the Lord for ever.

2 Chronicles 1:1
And Solomon, the son of David, made himself strong in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and made him very great.

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1 Kings 2:46
So the king gave orders to Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and, falling on him, put him to death. And Solomon's authority over the kingdom was complete.

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2 Kings 15:18
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

2 Kings 15:19
In his day, Pul, the king of Assyria, came up against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that he might let him keep the kingdom.

2 Kings 15:20
And Menahem got the money from Israel, from all the men of wealth, fifty silver shekels from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria went back without stopping in the land.

Daniel 11:20
Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight.

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2 Chronicles 6:22
If a man does wrong to his neighbour and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:

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Job 34:30
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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 29:1
A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

Proverbs 29:6
In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.

Proverbs 29:7
The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.

Proverbs 29:8
Men of pride are the cause of violent acts in a town, but by wise men wrath is turned away.

Proverbs 29:9
If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.

Proverbs 29:10
Men of blood are haters of the good man, and evil-doers go after his soul.

Proverbs 29:11
A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

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Psalms 28:5
Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

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Job 9:6
Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:

Psalms 11:3
If the bases are broken down, what is the upright man to do?

Psalms 60:4
Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)

Psalms 75:4
I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.

Psalms 82:5
They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.

Ezekiel 30:4
And a sword will come on Egypt, and cruel pain will be in Ethiopia, when they are falling by the sword in Egypt; and they will take away her wealth and her bases will be broken down.

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Proverbs 2:18
For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

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Proverbs 18:22
Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

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1 Kings 10:9
May the Lord your God be praised, whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; because the Lord's love for Israel is eternal, he has made you king, to be their judge in righteousness.

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;

2 Kings 22:2
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

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.

2 Chronicles 9:8
Praise be to the Lord your God whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of his kingdom to be king for the Lord your God: because, in his love for Israel, it was the purpose of your God to make them strong for ever, he made you king over them, to be their judge in righteousness.

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.

Proverbs 21:3
To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.

Proverbs 31:9
Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

Isaiah 33:22
For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our king; he will be our saviour.

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.

Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

Jeremiah 23:5
See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.

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Jeremiah 22:13
A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

Jeremiah 22:14
Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.

Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

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Ezekiel 45:14
And the fixed measure of oil is to be a tenth of a bath from the cor, for ten baths make up the cor;

Ezekiel 45:15
And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred, from all the families of Israel, for a meal offering and for a burned offering and for peace-offerings, to take away their sin, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 45:16
All the people are to give this offering to the ruler.

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