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Proverbs 16:13
Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.
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Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
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Proverbs 14:35
The king’s favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.
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Psalms 101:6
My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.
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Daniel 3:30
Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.
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Daniel 2:46-49
Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.The king answered to Daniel, and said,“ Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate.
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Esther 10:3
For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.
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Daniel 6:20-23
When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel,“ Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”Then Daniel said to the king,“ O king, live forever!My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
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Psalms 45:2
You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
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Luke 4:22
All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said,“ Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
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Ezra 7:6-11
this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.Some of the children of Israel, including some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of Yahweh’s commandments, and of his statutes to Israel:
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Genesis 41:39-57
Pharaoh said to Joseph,“ Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”Pharaoh said to Joseph,“ Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him,“ Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.Pharaoh said to Joseph,“ I am Pharaoh. Without you, no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath- Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He stored food in each city from the fields around that city.Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh,“ For”, he said,“ God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”The name of the second, he called Ephraim:“ For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians,“ Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
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Nehemiah 2:4-6
Then the king said to me,“ What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.I said to the king,“ If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”The king said to me( the queen was also sitting by him),“ How long will your journey be? When will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for him.
