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Isaiah 32:1-2
Behold, a king will reign righteously, And officials will rule justly.Each will be like a refuge from the wind And a shelter from the storm, Like streams of water in a dry country, Like the shade of a huge rock in an exhausted land.
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Genesis 44:5
Is this not that from which my lord drinks, and which he indeed uses for divination? You have done wrong in doing this!’ ”
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Genesis 44:15
Joseph said to them,“ What is this thing that you have done? Do you not know that a man who is like me can indeed practice divination?”
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Jeremiah 23:5-6
“ Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,“ When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; And He will reign as king and act wisely And do justice and righteousness in the land.In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will live securely; And this is His name by which He will be called,‘ The Lord Our Righteousness.’
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Hosea 10:4
They speak mere words, With worthless oaths they make covenants; And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
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Psalms 45:6-7
Your throne, God, is forever and ever; The scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of justice.You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of joy above Your companions.
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Psalms 72:1-4
Give the king Your judgments, God, And Your righteousness to the king’s son.May he judge Your people with righteousness And Your afflicted with justice.May the mountains bring peace to the people, And the hills, in righteousness.May he vindicate the afflicted of the people, Save the children of the needy, And crush the oppressor.
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2 Samuel 23 3-2 Samuel 23 4
The God of Israel said it; The Rock of Israel spoke to me:‘ He who rules over mankind righteously, Who rules in the fear of God,Is like the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, When the fresh grass springs out of the earth From sunshine after rain.’
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Deuteronomy 17:18-20
“ Now it shall come about, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this Law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he will learn to fear the Lord his God, by carefully following all the words of this Law and these statutes,so that his heart will not be haughty toward his countrymen, and that he will not turn away from the commandment to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may live long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.
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1 Kings 3 28
When all Israel heard about the judgment which the king had handed down, they feared the king, because they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
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Proverbs 16:12-13
It is an abomination for kings to commit wicked acts, Because a throne is established on righteousness.Righteous lips are the delight of kings, And one who speaks right is loved.
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Psalms 99:4
The strength of the King loves justice; You have established order; You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
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Amos 5:7
For those who turn justice into wormwood, And throw righteousness to the earth.”
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Amos 6:12
Do horses run on rocks? Or does one plow them with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison, And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
