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Proverbs 28:16
A ruler with no understanding will oppress his people, but one who hates corruption will have a long life.
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Ecclesiastes 10:5-7
There is another evil I have seen under the sun. Kings and rulers make a grave mistakewhen they give great authority to foolish people and low positions to people of proven worth.I have even seen servants riding horseback like princes— and princes walking like servants!
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Proverbs 26:8
Honoring a fool is as foolish as tying a stone to a slingshot.
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Psalms 12:8
even though the wicked strut about, and evil is praised throughout the land.
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Proverbs 19:10
It isn’t right for a fool to live in luxury or for a slave to rule over princes!
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Psalms 15:4
Those who despise flagrant sinners, and honor the faithful followers of the Lord, and keep their promises even when it hurts.
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Proverbs 17:7
Eloquent words are not fitting for a fool; even less are lies fitting for a ruler.
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Psalms 52:1
Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior? Don’t you realize God’s justice continues forever?
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Judges 9:7
When Jotham heard about this, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted,“ Listen to me, citizens of Shechem! Listen to me if you want God to listen to you!
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1 Samuel 12 17-1 Samuel 12 18
You know that it does not rain at this time of the year during the wheat harvest. I will ask the Lord to send thunder and rain today. Then you will realize how wicked you have been in asking the Lord for a king!”So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people were terrified of the Lord and of Samuel.
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Judges 9:56-57
In this way, God punished Abimelech for the evil he had done against his father by murdering his seventy brothers.God also punished the men of Shechem for all their evil. So the curse of Jotham son of Gideon was fulfilled.
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Esther 4:6
So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the square in front of the palace gate.
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Esther 4:9
So Hathach returned to Esther with Mordecai’s message.
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Esther 3:1-15
Some time later King Xerxes promoted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite over all the other nobles, making him the most powerful official in the empire.All the king’s officials would bow down before Haman to show him respect whenever he passed by, for so the king had commanded. But Mordecai refused to bow down or show him respect.Then the palace officials at the king’s gate asked Mordecai,“ Why are you disobeying the king’s command?”They spoke to him day after day, but still he refused to comply with the order. So they spoke to Haman about this to see if he would tolerate Mordecai’s conduct, since Mordecai had told them he was a Jew.When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or show him respect, he was filled with rage.He had learned of Mordecai’s nationality, so he decided it was not enough to lay hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he looked for a way to destroy all the Jews throughout the entire empire of Xerxes.So in the month of April, during the twelfth year of King Xerxes’ reign, lots were cast in Haman’s presence( the lots were called purim) to determine the best day and month to take action. And the day selected was March 7, nearly a year later.Then Haman approached King Xerxes and said,“ There is a certain race of people scattered through all the provinces of your empire who keep themselves separate from everyone else. Their laws are different from those of any other people, and they refuse to obey the laws of the king. So it is not in the king’s interest to let them live.If it please the king, issue a decree that they be destroyed, and I will give 10,000 large sacks of silver to the government administrators to be deposited in the royal treasury.”The king agreed, confirming his decision by removing his signet ring from his finger and giving it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.The king said,“ The money and the people are both yours to do with as you see fit.”So on April 17 the king’s secretaries were summoned, and a decree was written exactly as Haman dictated. It was sent to the king’s highest officers, the governors of the respective provinces, and the nobles of each province in their own scripts and languages. The decree was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the king’s signet ring.Dispatches were sent by swift messengers into all the provinces of the empire, giving the order that all Jews— young and old, including women and children— must be killed, slaughtered, and annihilated on a single day. This was scheduled to happen on March 7 of the next year. The property of the Jews would be given to those who killed them.A copy of this decree was to be issued as law in every province and proclaimed to all peoples, so that they would be ready to do their duty on the appointed day.At the king’s command, the decree went out by swift messengers, and it was also proclaimed in the fortress of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa fell into confusion.
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Judges 9:20
But if you have not acted in good faith, then may fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leading citizens of Shechem and Beth millo; and may fire come out from the citizens of Shechem and Beth millo and devour Abimelech!”
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Proverbs 26:3
Guide a horse with a whip, a donkey with a bridle, and a fool with a rod to his back!
