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Isaiah 32:1-2
Indeed, a king will reign righteously, and rulers will rule justly.Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the rain, like flowing streams in a dry land and the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.
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Genesis 44:5
Isn’t this the cup that my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wrong!’”
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Genesis 44:15
“ What have you done?” Joseph said to them.“ Didn’t you know that a man like me could uncover the truth by divination?”
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Jeremiah 23:5-6
“ Look, the days are coming”— this is the LORD’s declaration—“ when I will raise up a Righteous Branch for David. He will reign wisely as king and administer justice and righteousness in the land.In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. This is the name he will be called: The LORD Is Our Righteousness.
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Hosea 10:4
They speak mere words, taking false oaths while making covenants. So lawsuits break out like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a 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 love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy more than your companions.
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Psalms 72:1-4
God, give your justice to the king and your righteousness to the king’s son.He will judge your people with righteousness and your afflicted ones with justice.May the mountains bring well-being to the people and the hills, righteousness.May he vindicate the afflicted among the people, help the poor, and crush the oppressor.
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2 Samuel 23 3-2 Samuel 23 4
The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me,“ The one who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,is like the morning light when the sun rises on a cloudless morning, the glisten of rain on sprouting grass.”
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Deuteronomy 17:18-20
When he is seated on his royal throne, he is to write a copy of this instruction for himself on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes.Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, he will not turn from this command to the right or the left, and he and his sons will continue reigning many years in Israel.
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1 Kings 3 28
All Israel heard about the judgment the king had given, and they stood in awe of the king because they saw that God’s wisdom was in him to carry out justice.
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Proverbs 16:12-13
Wicked behavior is detestable to kings, since a throne is established through righteousness.Righteous lips are a king’s delight, and he loves one who speaks honestly.
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Psalms 99:4
The mighty King loves justice. You have established fairness; you have administered justice and righteousness in Jacob.
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Amos 5:7
Those who turn justice into wormwood also throw righteousness to the ground.
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Amos 6:12
Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
