Kingship (Bible Verses)

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Revelation 3:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

2 Samuel 5:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.

John 19:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

Genesis 49:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

Psalms 89:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

1 Kings 1:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?

Deuteronomy 17:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

1 Kings 15:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

Deuteronomy 17:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;

2 Kings 11:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD's people; between the king also and the people.

2 Kings 24:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.

Deuteronomy 17:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

1 Kings 1:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

1 Kings 2:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,

1 Kings 15:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

2 Kings 3:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.

2 Samuel 19:37 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.

1 Kings 1:34 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.

1 Kings 15:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

1 Samuel 14:51 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

2 Samuel 8:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.

1 Kings 1:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.

1 Kings 2:45 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever.

Psalms 132:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.

1 Kings 1:38 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.

1 Kings 11:36 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

1 Samuel 10:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.

2 Kings 14:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

2 Samuel 8:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;

1 Kings 1:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:

2 Kings 9:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.

Genesis 36:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

2 Kings 24:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 1:45 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.

1 Kings 11:43 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

1 Chronicles 17:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.

2 Kings 9:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

2 Kings 15:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

1 Chronicles 3:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son,

2 Samuel 4:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

1 Kings 1:46 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.

1 Kings 15:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

1 Chronicles 3:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

1 Kings 11:41 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

1 Kings 16:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolk, nor of his friends.

1 Chronicles 3:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,

2 Kings 14:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

1 Kings 11:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)

Judges 9:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.

2 Chronicles 28:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

1 Kings 11:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.

Ezekiel 19:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

1 Kings 1:40 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

2 Kings 11:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.

2 Kings 16:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

1 Chronicles 11:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

1 Samuel 13:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

1 Kings 1:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not showed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

2 Chronicles 25:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 15:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

1 Chronicles 3:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

1 Kings 1:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

1 Kings 21:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.

2 Kings 21:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.

2 Kings 8:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

2 Kings 14:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 1:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?

1 Kings 15:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

1 Kings 22:42 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

2 Chronicles 21:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

2 Kings 15:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

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