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Isaiah 32:1-2
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
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Genesis 44:5
Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”
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Genesis 44:15
Joseph said to them,“ What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”
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Jeremiah 23:5-6
“ Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,“ that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
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Hosea 10:4
They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
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Psalms 45:6-7
Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
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Psalms 72:1-4
God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
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2 Samuel 23 3-2 Samuel 23 4
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me,‘ One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
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Deuteronomy 17:18-20
It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away 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 middle of Israel.
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1 Kings 3 28
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 justice.
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Proverbs 16:12-13
It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.
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Psalms 99:4
The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
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Amos 5:7
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:
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Amos 6:12
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
