Ecclesiastes 8:2
"I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God."
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- Titus 3:1
"Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 24:21
"My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:"
Read in chapter → - 1 Peter 2:13
"Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;"
Read in chapter → - Romans 13:1
"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God."
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 2:43
"Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?"
Read in chapter → - Exodus 22:11
"Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 17:13
"And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:"
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 21:7
"But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul."
Read in chapter → - 1 Chronicles 29:24
"And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king."
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