For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.


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Daniel 8 23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
Proverbs 8 16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
Isaiah 32 1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
Proverbs 29 4 The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.
Proverbs 28 16 The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
Ezekiel 46 18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
Leviticus 4 22 When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;
Daniel 11 18 After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.
Isaiah 1 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Ezra 9 7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
Proverbs 14 28 In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Ezra 9 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
Proverbs 17 2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
Isaiah 40 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Proverbs 29 26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.
Proverbs 16 12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
Jeremiah 25 14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
Proverbs 8 15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Ecclesiastes 10 4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
Ezekiel 29 15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
Leviticus 18 28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
Psalms 45 16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Proverbs 28 7 Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Hosea 8 4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Daniel 11 21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
Micah 6 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Amos 1 15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.
Habakkuk 1 10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
Numbers 34 18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.
2 Chronicles 1 12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.
Isaiah 7 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
Daniel 11 5 And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.
Ecclesiastes 8 4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
Isaiah 10 8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
1 Corinthians 9 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Isaiah 26 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
Psalms 94 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
Mark 3 24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Proverbs 29 14 The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
Proverbs 29 12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Jeremiah 38 4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
Hosea 9 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
Ecclesiastes 4 13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Psalms 148 11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:
Proverbs 11 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Psalms 119 161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
John 12 31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
Deuteronomy 28 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
Lamentations 5 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Numbers 14 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: