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Rulers: Wicked Genesis 15:13, 14

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. / But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

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Rulers: Wicked Exodus 3:9

And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.

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Rulers: Wicked Deuteronomy 27:19

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

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Rulers: Wicked 1 Samuel 8:10–18

So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. / He said, “This will be the manner of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them to his own chariots and horses, to run in front of his chariots. / He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.

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Rulers: Wicked 2 Chronicles 28:19

For the LORD humbled Judah because Ahaz king of Israel had thrown off restraint in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the LORD.

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Rulers: Wicked Nehemiah 5:7–9

and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them / and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say. / So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

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Rulers: Wicked Nehemiah 9:34–37

Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them. / For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways. / So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness—here we are as slaves!

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Rulers: Wicked Job 24:22, 24

Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life. / They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.

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Rulers: Wicked Job 35:9

Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

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Rulers: Wicked Psalm 10:17, 18

You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear, / to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.

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Rulers: Wicked Psalm 12:5, 8

“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.” / The wicked wander freely, and vileness is exalted among men.

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Rulers: Wicked Psalm 49:20

A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

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Rulers: Wicked Psalm 58:1, 2

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David. Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men? / No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.

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Rulers: Wicked Psalm 82:2

“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

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Rulers: Wicked Psalm 94:20, 21

Can a corrupt throne be Your ally—one devising mischief by decree? / They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

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Rulers: Wicked Psalm 110:5

The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.

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Rulers: Wicked Proverbs 17:15, 26

Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD. / It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.

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Rulers: Wicked Proverbs 28:15, 16, 28

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people. / A leader who lacks judgment is also a great oppressor, but he who hates dishonest profit will prolong his days. / When the wicked come to power, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous flourish.

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Rulers: Wicked Proverbs 29:2, 4, 12

When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan. / By justice a king brings stability to the land, but a man who exacts tribute demolishes it. / If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.

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Rulers: Wicked Proverbs 30:21, 22

Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: / a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,

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Rulers: Wicked Ecclesiastes 3:16, 17

Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness. / I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”

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Rulers: Wicked Ecclesiastes 4:1, 13, 14

Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter. / Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning. / For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.

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Rulers: Wicked Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.

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Rulers: Wicked Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.

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Rulers: Wicked Ecclesiastes 10:5–7, 16, 17

There is an evil I have seen under the sun—an error that proceeds from the ruler: / Folly is appointed to great heights, but the rich sit in lowly positions. / I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.

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Rulers: Wicked Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

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Rulers: Wicked Isaiah 3:12, 14, 15

Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths. / The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses. / Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

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Rulers: Wicked Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.

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Rulers: Wicked Isaiah 10:1–3

Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, / to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder. / What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

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Rulers: Wicked Isaiah 14:4–20

you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended! / The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers. / It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

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Rulers: Wicked Isaiah 28:14, 15

Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem. / For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

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Rulers: Wicked Isaiah 29:20, 21

For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down— / those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.

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Rulers: Wicked Isaiah 30:33

For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

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Rulers: Wicked Isaiah 33:1

Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

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Rulers: Wicked Isaiah 40:23

He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

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Rulers: Wicked Isaiah 52:5

And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.

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Rulers: Wicked Isaiah 59:14, 15

So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter. / Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

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Rulers: Wicked Jeremiah 5:28, 29

They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy. / Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

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Rulers: Wicked Ezekiel 21:25, 26

And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.’ / This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are: Exalt the lowly and bring low the exalted.

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Rulers: Wicked Ezekiel 22:6, 27

See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood. / Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

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Rulers: Wicked Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.

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Rulers: Wicked Ezekiel 34:2–4, 7–10

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock? / You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock. / You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

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Rulers: Wicked Ezekiel 45:9

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’

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Rulers: Wicked Hosea 5:10

The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.

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Rulers: Wicked Hosea 7:3

They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.

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Rulers: Wicked Hosea 10:7

Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.

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Rulers: Wicked Amos 3:10, 11

“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.” / Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”

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Rulers: Wicked Amos 4:1, 2

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.” / The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

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Rulers: Wicked Amos 5:11, 12

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. / For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

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Rulers: Wicked Amos 6:12, 13

“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood— / you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’

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Rulers: Wicked Micah 3:1–3, 9–11

Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice? / You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones. / You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

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Rulers: Wicked Micah 7:3, 4

Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together. / The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.

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Rulers: Wicked Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

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Rulers: Wicked Habakkuk 2:5–13

and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own. / Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’ / Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey.

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Rulers: Wicked Zephaniah 1:8

“On the Day of the LORD’s sacrifice I will punish the princes, the sons of the king, and all who are dressed in foreign apparel.

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Rulers: Wicked Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.

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Rulers: Wicked Acts 23:3

Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.”

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Rulers: Wicked James 2:6, 9

But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court? / But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

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Rulers: Wicked in Permitting Baal-Worship 2 Kings 17:1, 2, 7–18

In the twelfth year of the reign of Ahaz over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria nine years. / And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like the kings of Israel who preceded him. / All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods

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Rulers: Wicked: Abijam, Walking in the Sins of Rehoboam 1 Kings 15:3

And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.

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Rulers: Wicked: Abimelech, Killing his Seventy Brothers Judges 9:1–5

Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother, / “Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.” / And when his mother’s brothers spoke all these words about him in the presence of all the leaders of Shechem, their hearts were inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”

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Rulers: Wicked: Adoni-Bezek, Torturing Seventy Kings Judges 1:7

Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

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Rulers: Wicked: Ahab, Serving Baal 1 Kings 16:30–33

However, Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him. / And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal. / First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.

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Rulers: Wicked: Ahab, Serving Baal 1 Kings 21:21–26

This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free. / I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked My anger and caused Israel to sin.’ / And the LORD also speaks concerning Jezebel: ‘The dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.’

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Rulers: Wicked: Ahasuerus and Haman, Decreeing the Death of all Jews (Genocide) Esther 3:1

After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.

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Rulers: Wicked: Ahaz, Burning his own Children in Idolatrous Sacrifice 2 Kings 16:3

Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

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Rulers: Wicked: Ahaz, Burning his own Children in Idolatrous Sacrifice 2 Chronicles 28:2–4

Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made cast images of the Baals. / Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. / And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

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Rulers: Wicked: Ahaziah, Doing Evil Like the Household of Ahab 2 Chronicles 22:1–9

Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah. / Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri. / Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.

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Rulers: Wicked: Amaziah, Worshiping the Gods of Seir 2 Chronicles 25:14

When Amaziah returned from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the Seirites, set them up as his own gods, bowed before them, and burned sacrifices to them.

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Rulers: Wicked: Amon, Who Followed the Evil Example of Manasseh 2 Kings 21:19–22

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah. / And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. / He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.

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Rulers: Wicked: Ananias, the High Priest, Commanding to Strike Paul Acts 23:2

At this, the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

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Rulers: Wicked: And Persecuting Jeremiah Jeremiah 38:5, 6

“Here he is,” replied King Zedekiah. “He is in your hands, since the king can do nothing to stop you.” / So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

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Rulers: Wicked: Asa, Imprisoning the Seer, and Oppressing the People 2 Chronicles 16:10

Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.

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Rulers: Wicked: Baasha, Walking in the Ways of Jeroboam 1 Kings 15:33, 34

In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years. / And Baasha did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.

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Rulers: Wicked: Belshazzar, in Drunkenness and Committing Sacrilege Daniel 5:22

But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.

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Rulers: Wicked: Confiscating Naboth's Vineyard 1 Kings 21:1

Some time later, Naboth the Jezreelite happened to own a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

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Rulers: Wicked: Confiscating Naboth's Vineyard 1 Samuel 8:14

He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his servants.

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Rulers: Wicked: Confiscating Naboth's Vineyard 1 Kings 22:38

And the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.

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Rulers: Wicked: Confiscating Naboth's Vineyard 2 Kings 9:26

‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”

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Rulers: Wicked: Conspiring Against Pekahiah and Assassinating Him 2 Kings 15:25

Then his officer, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him along with Argob, Arieh, and fifty men of Gilead. And at the citadel of the king’s palace in Samaria, Pekah struck down and killed Pekahiah and reigned in his place.

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Rulers: Wicked: Darius, in Deifying Himself Daniel 6:7, 9

All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce a decree that for thirty days anyone who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions. / Therefore King Darius signed the written decree.

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Rulers: Wicked: David, Numbering Israel and Judah 2 Samuel 24:1–9

Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.” / So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.” / But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”

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Rulers: Wicked: David, Numbering Israel and Judah 1 Chronicles 21:1–7

Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel. / So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.” / But Joab replied, “May the LORD multiply His troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all servants of my lord? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”

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Rulers: Wicked: David, Numbering Israel and Judah 1 Chronicles 27:23, 24

David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky. / Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. For because of this census wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not entered in the Book of the Chronicles of King David.

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Rulers: Wicked: Debauching Themselves and the Worshipers 1 Samuel 2:22

Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

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Rulers: Wicked: Eli's Sons, Desecrating the Sacrifices 1 Samuel 2:12–17

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD / or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling / and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.

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Rulers: Wicked: Exalting Debased Persons to the Priesthood 1 Kings 12:31

Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.

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Rulers: Wicked: Exalting Debased Persons to the Priesthood 1 Kings 13:33

Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.

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Rulers: Wicked: Exalting Debased Persons to the Priesthood 2 Kings 17:32

So the new residents worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed for themselves priests of all sorts to serve in the shrines of the high places.

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Rulers: Wicked: Exalting Debased Persons to the Priesthood 2 Chronicles 11:14, 15

For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD. / And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.

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Rulers: Wicked: Exalting Debased Persons to the Priesthood Ezekiel 44:7

In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.

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Rulers: Wicked: Exalting Debased Persons to the Priesthood Numbers 3:10

So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any outsider who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death.”

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Rulers: Wicked: Hanun, Maltreating David's Servants 2 Samuel 10:4

So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.

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Rulers: Wicked: Hanun, Maltreating David's Servants 1 Chronicles 19:2–5

And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to console Hanun concerning his father. But when David’s servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him, / the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Have not his servants come to you to explore the land, spy it out, and overthrow it?” / So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved their beards, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.

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Rulers: Wicked: Hazael, Committing Pillage (Plundering) 2 Kings 8:12

“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”

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Rulers: Wicked: Hazael, Committing Pillage (Plundering) 2 Kings 10:32

In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory

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Rulers: Wicked: Hazael, Committing Pillage (Plundering) 2 Kings 12:17

At that time Hazael king of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he decided to attack Jerusalem.

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Rulers: Wicked: Hazael, Committing Pillage (Plundering) 2 Kings 13:3–7

So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them continually into the hands of Hazael king of Aram and his son Ben-hadad. / Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him because He saw the oppression that the king of Aram had inflicted on Israel. / So the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, and they escaped the power of the Arameans. Then the people of Israel lived in their own homes as they had before.

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Rulers: Wicked: Herod Agrippa I, Persecuting the Congregation in Jerusalem Acts 12:1–19

About that time, King Herod reached out to harm some who belonged to the church. / He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. / And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

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Rulers: Wicked: Herod Antipas, in Beheading John the Baptist Matthew 14:1–11

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus / and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.” / Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

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