Proverbs 16:10
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10 (A)An oracle is on the lips of a king;
his mouth does not sin in judgment.
Isaiah 32:1-2
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A King Will Reign in Righteousness
32 Behold, (A)a king will reign in righteousness,
and princes will rule in justice.
2 (B)Each will be like a hiding place from the wind,
a shelter from the storm,
(C)like streams of water in a dry place,
like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
Jeremiah 23:5-6
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5 (A)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous (B)Branch, and (C)he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 6 In his days Judah will be saved, and (D)Israel will (E)dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: (F)‘The Lord is our righteousness.’
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Genesis 44:15
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15 Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me (A)can indeed practice divination?”
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Genesis 44:5
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5 Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and (A)by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.’”
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Amos 5:7
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- Amos 5:7 Or to bitter fruit
Hosea 10:4
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4 They utter (A)mere words;
with empty[a] oaths they make covenants;
so (B)judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
(C)in the furrows of the field.
Footnotes
- Hosea 10:4 Or vain (see Exodus 20:7)
Proverbs 16:12-13
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12 It is an abomination to kings to do evil,
for (A)the throne is established by righteousness.
13 (B)Righteous lips are the delight of a king,
and he loves him who speaks what is right.
Psalm 72:1-4
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Give the King Your Justice
Of (A)Solomon.
72 Give the king your (B)justice, O God,
and your righteousness to the royal son!
2 May he (C)judge your people with righteousness,
and your poor with justice!
3 Let the mountains bear (D)prosperity for the people,
and the hills, in righteousness!
4 May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,
give deliverance to the children of the needy,
and crush the oppressor!
Psalm 45:6-7
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1 Kings 3:28
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28 And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that (A)the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
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2 Samuel 23:3-4
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3 The God of Israel has spoken;
(A)the Rock of Israel has said to me:
When one rules justly over men,
ruling (B)in the fear of God,
4 he (C)dawns on them like the morning light,
like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning,
like rain[a] that makes grass to sprout from the earth.
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 23:4 Hebrew from rain
Deuteronomy 17:18-20
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18 “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, (A)he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, (B)approved by[a] the Levitical priests. 19 And (C)it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, (D)that he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, 20 that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he (E)may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, (F)so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.
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- Deuteronomy 17:18 Hebrew from before
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