Ecclesiastes 8:4
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4 Where the word of a king is, there is power;
And (A)who may say to him, “What are you doing?”
Job 9:12
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- Job 9:12 Lit. who can turn Him back?
Romans 13:1-4
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Submit to Government
13 Let every soul be (A)subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists (B)the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will [a]bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? (C)Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. 4 For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.
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- Romans 13:2 Lit. receive
Daniel 4:35
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35 (A)All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing;
(B)He does according to His will in the army of heaven
And among the inhabitants of the earth.
(C)No one can restrain His hand
Or say to Him, (D)“What have You done?”
Romans 9:20
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20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? (A)Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”
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Proverbs 20:2
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2 The [a]wrath of a king is like the roaring of a lion;
Whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own life.
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- Proverbs 20:2 Lit. fear or terror, produced by the king’s wrath
Proverbs 19:12
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Job 34:18-19
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18 (A)Is it fitting to say to a king, ‘You are worthless,’
And to nobles, ‘You are wicked’?
19 Yet He (B)is not partial to princes,
Nor does He regard the rich more than the poor;
For (C)they are all the work of His hands.
Luke 12:4-5
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Jesus Teaches the Fear of God(A)
4 (B)“And I say to you, (C)My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, (D)fear Him!
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Daniel 3:15
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15 Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, and you fall down and worship the image which I have made, (A)good! But if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. (B)And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?”
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Proverbs 30:31
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- Proverbs 30:31 Or perhaps strutting rooster, lit. girded of waist
- Proverbs 30:31 A Jewish tradition a king against whom there is no uprising
Job 33:12-13
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12 “Look, in this you are not righteous.
I will answer you,
For God is greater than man.
13 Why do you (A)contend with Him?
For He does not give an accounting of any of His words.
1 Kings 2:46
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46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and struck him down, and he died. Thus the (A)kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
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1 Kings 2:29-34
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29 And King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to the tabernacle of the Lord; there he is, by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, (A)strike him down.” 30 So Benaiah went to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him, “Thus says the king, (B)‘Come out!’ ”
And he said, “No, but I will die here.” And Benaiah brought back word to the king, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.”
31 Then the king said to him, (C)“Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, (D)that you may take away from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood which Joab shed. 32 So the Lord (E)will return his [a]blood on his head, because he struck down two men more righteous (F)and better than he, and killed them with the sword—(G)Abner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and (H)Amasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah—though my father David did not know it. 33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab and (I)upon the head of his descendants forever. (J)But upon David and his descendants, upon his house and his throne, there shall be peace forever from the Lord.”
34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
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- 1 Kings 2:32 Or bloodshed
1 Kings 2:25
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25 So King Solomon sent by the hand of (A)Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he struck him down, and he died.
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