Ecclesiastes 4:14
Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.
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Ecclesiastes 4:14
Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.
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Genesis 41:33
And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:34
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years.
Genesis 41:35
And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.
Genesis 41:36
And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.
Genesis 41:37
And this seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.
Genesis 41:38
Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?
Genesis 41:39
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you:
Genesis 41:42
Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his neck;
Genesis 41:43
And he made him take his seat in the second of his carriages; and they went before him crying, Make way! So he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:44
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.
Psalms 105:21
He made him lord of his house, and ruler over everything he had;
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Judges 16:21
So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.
Judges 16:25
Now when their hearts were full of joy, they said, Send for Samson to make sport for us. And they sent for Samson out of the prison-house, and he made sport before them; and they put him between the pillars.
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1 Samuel 2:4
The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
1 Samuel 2:6
The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.
1 Samuel 2:7
The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;
Job 5:12
Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.
Job 5:13
He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.
Job 34:24
He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.
Job 34:25
For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.
Job 34:26
The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.
Job 34:27
Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,
Job 34:28
So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.
Psalms 107:40
He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.
Psalms 107:41
But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock.
Psalms 113:6
Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?
Ezekiel 17:24
And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.
Amos 9:11
In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;
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1 Samuel 15:17
And Samuel said, Though you may seem little to yourself, are you not head of the tribes of Israel? for the Lord with the holy oil made you king over Israel,
2 Samuel 7:8
Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:
Job 36:6
His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;
Job 36:7
Lifting them up to the seat of kings, and making them safe for ever.
James 2:5
Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?
Revelation 1:6
And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.
Revelation 3:21
To him who overcomes I will give a place with me on my high seat, even as I overcame, and am seated with my Father on his high seat.
Revelation 5:10
And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth.
Revelation 22:5
And there will be no more night; and they have no need of a light or of the shining of the sun; for the Lord God will give them light: and they will be ruling for ever and ever.
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1 Kings 11:40
And Solomon was looking for a chance to put Jeroboam to death; but he went in flight to Egypt, to Shishak, king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.
1 Kings 14:28
And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.
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1 Kings 12:15
So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.
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1 Kings 14:25
Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;
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2 Kings 8:28
He went with Joram, the son of Ahab, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the Aramaeans.
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2 Kings 23:31
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for three months; his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 Kings 23:32
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.
2 Kings 23:33
And Pharaoh-necoh put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not be king in Jerusalem; and took from the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
2 Kings 23:34
Then Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king in place of Josiah his father, changing his name to Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz he took away to Egypt, where he was till his death.
2 Kings 24:1
In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him.
2 Kings 24:2
And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.
2 Kings 24:6
So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.
2 Kings 24:12
Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.
2 Kings 25:7
And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.
Lamentations 4:20
Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.
Daniel 4:31
While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you:
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2 Kings 25:27
And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison;
2 Kings 25:28
And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
2 Kings 25:29
And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.
2 Kings 25:30
And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.
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2 Chronicles 22:5
Acting on their suggestion, he went with Jehoram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the bowmen.
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Nehemiah 9:35
For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.
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Psalms 1:2
But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.
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Psalms 95:9
When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
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Proverbs 6:11
Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
Proverbs 6:16
Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:
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Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:8
What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?
Ecclesiastes 7:6
Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),
Ecclesiastes 9:12
Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.
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Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
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Ecclesiastes 7:22
Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.
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Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.
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Jeremiah 23:11
For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 38:15
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I give you the answer to your question, will you not certainly put me to death? and if I make a suggestion to you, you will not give it a hearing.
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Ezekiel 20:37
And I will make you go under the rod and will make you small in number:
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Daniel 2:48
Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him offerings in great number, and made him ruler over all the land of Babylon, and chief over all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 5:29
Then, by the order of Belshazzar, they put a purple robe on Daniel, and a gold chain round his neck, and a public statement was made that he was to be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.
Daniel 6:1
Darius was pleased to put over the kingdom a hundred and twenty captains, who were to be all through the kingdom;
Daniel 6:2
And over them were three chief rulers, of whom Daniel was one; and the captains were to be responsible to the chief rulers, so that the king might undergo no loss.
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Malachi 3:15
And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.
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Job 12:18
He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;
Mark 6:3
Is not this the woodworker, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were bitter against him.
Luke 1:52
He has put down kings from their seats, lifting up on high the men of low degree.
Luke 18:14
I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.
James 1:9
But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;
James 1:10
But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.
James 4:10
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
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Proverbs 14:35
The king has pleasure in a servant who does wisely, but his wrath is against him who is a cause of shame.
Acts 7:10
And made him free from all his troubles, and gave him wisdom and the approval of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and all his house.
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