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Proverbs 28:16
A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill- gotten gain will have long days.
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Ecclesiastes 10:5-7
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.
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Proverbs 26:8
As one who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honor to a fool.
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Psalms 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
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Proverbs 19:10
Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
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Psalms 15:4
in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;
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Proverbs 17:7
Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.
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Psalms 52:1
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
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Judges 9:7
When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them,“ Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
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1 Samuel 12 17-1 Samuel 12 18
Isn’t it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you will know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in Yahweh’s sight, in asking for a king.”So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain that day. Then all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.
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Judges 9:56-57
Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.
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Esther 4:6
So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king’s gate.
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Esther 4:9
Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
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Esther 3:1-15
After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.Then the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai,“ Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.Haman said to King Ahasuerus,“ There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.The king said to Haman,“ The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.
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Judges 9:20
but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.”
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Proverbs 26:3
A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!
