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Isaiah 32:1-2
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
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Genesis 44:5
[ Is] not this[ it] in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
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Genesis 44:15
And Joseph said unto them, What deed[ is] this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
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Jeremiah 23:5-6
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this[ is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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Hosea 10:4
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
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Psalms 45:6-7
Thy throne, O God,[ is] for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom[ is] a right sceptre.Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
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Psalms 72:1-4
Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
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2 Samuel 23 3-2 Samuel 23 4
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men[ must be] just, ruling in the fear of God.And[ he shall be] as the light of the morning,[ when] the sun riseth,[ even] a morning without clouds;[ as] the tender grass[ springing] out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
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Deuteronomy 17:18-20
And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of[ that which is] before the priests the Levites:And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment,[ to] the right hand, or[ to] the left: to the end that he may prolong[ his] days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
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1 Kings 3 28
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God[ was] in him, to do judgment.
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Proverbs 16:12-13
[ It is] an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.Righteous lips[ are] the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
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Psalms 99:4
The king’s strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
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Amos 5:7
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
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Amos 6:12
Shall horses run upon the rock? will[ one] plow[ there] with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: