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Jesaja 32:1-2
See, a king will reign in righteousness and rulers will rule with justice.Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land. (niv)
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1 Mose 44 5
Isn’t this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination? This is a wicked thing you have done.’” (niv)
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1 Mose 44 15
Joseph said to them,“ What is this you have done? Don’t you know that a man like me can find things out by divination?” (niv)
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Jeremia 23:5-6
“ The days are coming,” declares the Lord,“ when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The Lord Our Righteous Savior. (niv)
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Hosea 10:4
They make many promises, take false oaths and make agreements; therefore lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field. (niv)
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Psalm 45:6-7
Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy. (niv)
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Psalm 72:1-4
Endow the king with your justice, O God, the royal son with your righteousness.May he judge your people in righteousness, your afflicted ones with justice.May the mountains bring prosperity to the people, the hills the fruit of righteousness.May he defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the needy; may he crush the oppressor. (niv)
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2 Samuel 23 3-2 Samuel 23 4
The God of Israel spoke, the Rock of Israel said to me:‘ When one rules over people in righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God,he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings grass from the earth.’ (niv)
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5 Mose 17 18-5 Mose 17 20
When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests.It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decreesand not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel. (niv)
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1 Könige 3 28
When all Israel heard the verdict the king had given, they held the king in awe, because they saw that he had wisdom from God to administer justice. (niv)
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Sprüche 16:12-13
Kings detest wrongdoing, for a throne is established through righteousness.Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks what is right. (niv)
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Psalm 99:4
The King is mighty, he loves justice— you have established equity; in Jacob you have done what is just and right. (niv)
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Amos 5:7
There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground. (niv)
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Amos 6:12
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness— (niv)
