Proverbs 29:4

Proverbs 29:4
The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

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Exodus 18:21
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Exodus 23:8
“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.

Proverbs 17:8
A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.

Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

Proverbs 18:5
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

Proverbs 18:16
A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

Proverbs 25:14
As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

Proverbs 28:3
A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

Proverbs 28:16
A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

Isaiah 33:15
He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

Isaiah 33:16
he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

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Deuteronomy 19:16
If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

Deuteronomy 19:17
then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

Deuteronomy 19:18
and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,

Deuteronomy 19:19
then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 19:20
Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.

Deuteronomy 19:21
Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

2 Samuel 19:29
The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”

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1 Samuel 13:13
Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

Psalms 89:14
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Psalms 99:4
The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Proverbs 20:8
A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

Isaiah 49:8
Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

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1 Samuel 17:17
Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;

1 Samuel 17:18
and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand; and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”

1 Samuel 25:18
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

2 Samuel 16:1
When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine.

2 Samuel 17:27
When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

2 Samuel 17:28
brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,

2 Samuel 17:29
honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and for the people who were with him to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

2 Samuel 19:32
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

1 Chronicles 12:40
Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.

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1 Kings 2:45
But king Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before Yahweh forever.”

2 Chronicles 1:1
Solomon the son of David was firmly established in his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him, and made him exceedingly great.

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1 Kings 2:46
So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

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2 Kings 15:18
He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 15:19
Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

2 Kings 15:20
Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn’t stay there in the land.

Daniel 11:20
“Then one who will cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory will stand up in his place; but within few days he shall be destroyed, not in anger, and not in battle.

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2 Chronicles 6:22
“If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house,

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Job 34:30
that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to ensnare the people.

Proverbs 20:25
It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.

Proverbs 29:1
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Proverbs 29:6
An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

Proverbs 29:7
The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

Proverbs 29:8
Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

Proverbs 29:9
If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

Proverbs 29:10
The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.

Proverbs 29:11
A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

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Psalms 28:5
Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

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Job 9:6
He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

Psalms 11:3
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Psalms 60:4
You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Psalms 75:4
I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.

Psalms 82:5
They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Ezekiel 30:4
A sword will come on Egypt, and anguish will be in Ethiopia, when the slain fall in Egypt. They take away her multitude, and her foundations are broken down.

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Proverbs 2:18
for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

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Proverbs 18:22
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

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1 Kings 10:9
Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”

1 Kings 15:4
Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;

2 Kings 22:2
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.

2 Kings 23:25
There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.

2 Chronicles 9:8
Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you and set you on his throne to be king for Yahweh your God, because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”

2 Chronicles 34:2
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.

Proverbs 21:3
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

Isaiah 33:22
For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

Jeremiah 21:12
House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Jeremiah 22:3
Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 23:5
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch; and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

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Jeremiah 22:13
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

Jeremiah 22:14
who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself, with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.

Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

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Ezekiel 45:14
and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer (for ten baths are a homer),

Ezekiel 45:15
and one lamb of the flock out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a meal offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 45:16
“All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.

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