2 Samuel 23:3
"The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God."
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- Deuteronomy 32:4
"He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 22:32
"For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?"
Read in chapter → - Exodus 18:21
"Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 72:2
"He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment."
Read in chapter → - Zechariah 9:9
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 82:3
"Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 16:18
"Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment."
Read in chapter → - Hebrews 1:8
"But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom."
Read in chapter → - Exodus 23:6
"Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 33:20
"And he erected there an altar, and called it Elelohe-Israel. Elelohe-Israel: that is God the God of Israel"
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