Ecclesiastes 8:4
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4 Since a king’s word is supreme, who can say to him, “What are you doing?(A)”
Romans 13:1-4
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Submission to Governing Authorities
13 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities,(A) for there is no authority except that which God has established.(B) The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted,(C) and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended.(D) 4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.(E)
Job 9:12
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Daniel 4:35
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Romans 9:20
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20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(A) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(B) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](C)
Footnotes
- Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
Proverbs 20:2
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Proverbs 19:12
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Luke 12:4-5
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4 “I tell you, my friends,(A) do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. 5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.(B)
Daniel 3:15
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15 Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god(A) will be able to rescue(B) you from my hand?”
Proverbs 30:31
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31 a strutting rooster, a he-goat,
and a king secure against revolt.[a]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 30:31 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
1 Kings 2:46
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46 Then the king gave the order to Benaiah(A) son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck Shimei(B) down and he died.
The kingdom was now established(C) in Solomon’s hands.
1 Kings 2:29-34
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29 King Solomon was told that Joab had fled to the tent of the Lord and was beside the altar.(A) Then Solomon ordered Benaiah(B) son of Jehoiada, “Go, strike him down!”
30 So Benaiah entered the tent(C) of the Lord and said to Joab, “The king says, ‘Come out!(D)’”
But he answered, “No, I will die here.”
Benaiah reported to the king, “This is how Joab answered me.”
31 Then the king commanded Benaiah, “Do as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so clear me and my whole family of the guilt of the innocent blood(E) that Joab shed. 32 The Lord will repay(F) him for the blood he shed,(G) because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa(H) son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better(I) men and more upright than he. 33 May the guilt of their blood rest on the head of Joab and his descendants forever. But on David and his descendants, his house and his throne, may there be the Lord’s peace forever.”
34 So Benaiah(J) son of Jehoiada went up and struck down Joab(K) and killed him, and he was buried at his home out in the country.
1 Kings 2:25
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25 So King Solomon gave orders to Benaiah(A) son of Jehoiada, and he struck down Adonijah and he died.(B)
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