Psalms 118:9 It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in rulers. (BBE)
Psalms 119:23 Rulers make evil designs against me; but your servant gives thought to your rules. (BBE NIV)
Psalms 119:161 <SHIN> Rulers have been cruel to me without cause; but I have the fear of your word in my heart. (BBE NIV)
Psalms 122:5 For there seats for the judges were placed, even the rulers' seats of the line of David. (BBE)
Psalms 132:12 If your children keep my word, and the teachings which I will give them, their children will be rulers of your kingdom for ever. (BBE)
Psalms 146:3 Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation. (BBE)
Psalms 148:11 Kings of the earth, and all peoples; rulers and all judges of the earth: (BBE RSV NIV)
Psalms 149:8 To put their kings in chains, and their rulers in bands of iron; (BBE)
Proverbs 8:15 Through me kings have their power, and rulers give right decisions. (BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 8:16 By me princes rule; nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth. (WEB)
Proverbs 19:10 Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers. (BBE)
Proverbs 28:2 In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge. (WEB RSV NIV)
Proverbs 31:4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink? (BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 7:19 Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city. (WEB JPS ASV BBE YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 10:7 I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 10:16 Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning. (BBE)
Isaiah 1:10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah! (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 1:23 Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them. (See NAS NIV)
Isaiah 3:14 The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force. (BBE)
Isaiah 5:13 For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water. (BBE)
Isaiah 10:13 For he has said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers. (WEB)
Isaiah 14:2 And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters. (BBE)
Isaiah 14:5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 14:9 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. (WEB)
Isaiah 16:8 For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea. (See NIV)
Isaiah 22:3 All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Isaiah 28:14 Give ear then to the word of the Lord, you men of pride, the rulers of this people in Jerusalem: (BBE)
Isaiah 29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. (KJV WBS)
Isaiah 32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and as for princes, they shall rule in justice. (See NIV)
Isaiah 40:23 He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value. (BBE NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 41:25 "I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay. (WEB JPS ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 49:7 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 52:5 And now, what -- to Me here, An affirmation of Jehovah, That taken is My people for nought? Its rulers cause howling, -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And continually all the day My name is despised. (YLT RSV)
Isaiah 60:17 For bronze I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood bronze, and for stones iron; and I will make thine officers peace, and thy rulers righteousness. (DBY)
Jeremiah 2:8 The priests didn't say, Where is Yahweh? and those who handle the law didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. (WEB JPS ASV BBE NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets; (BBE)
Jeremiah 4:9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king will be dead in him, and the hearts of the rulers; and the priests will be overcome with fear, and the prophets with wonder. (BBE)
Jeremiah 8:1 At that time, says the Lord, they will take the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem out of their resting-places: (BBE)
Jeremiah 26:10 And the rulers of Judah, hearing of these things, came up from the king's house to the house of the Lord, and took their seats by the new door of the Lord's house. (BBE)
Jeremiah 26:11 Then the priests and the prophets said to the rulers and to all the people, The right fate for this man is death; for he has said words against this town in your hearing. (BBE)
Jeremiah 26:12 Then Jeremiah said to all the rulers and to all the people, The Lord has sent me as his prophet to say against this house and against this town all the words which have come to your ears. (BBE)
Jeremiah 26:16 Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, It is not right for this man to be put to death: for he has said words to us in the name of the Lord our God. (BBE)
Jeremiah 29:2 (After Jeconiah the king and the queen-mother and the unsexed servants and the rulers of Judah and Jerusalem and the expert workmen and the metal-workers had gone away from Jerusalem;) (BBE)
Jeremiah 33:26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Jeremiah 34:10 And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go. (BBE)
Jeremiah 34:19 The rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the unsexed servants and the priests and all the people of the land who went between the parts of the ox, (BBE)
Jeremiah 34:21 And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers I will give into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives, and into the hands of the king of Babylon's army which has gone away from you. (BBE)
Jeremiah 35:4 And I took them into the house of the Lord, into the room of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the rulers' room, which was over the room of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door; (BBE)
Jeremiah 36:12 Went down to the king's house, to the scribe's room: and all the rulers were seated there, Elishama the scribe and Delaiah, the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah, the son of Hananiah, and all the rulers. (BBE)
Jeremiah 36:14 So all the rulers sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the book from which you have been reading to the people and come. So Baruch, the son of Neriah, took the book in his hand and came down to them. (BBE)
Jeremiah 36:19 Then the rulers said to Baruch, Go and put yourself in a safe place, you and Jeremiah, and let no man have knowledge of where you are. (BBE)
Jeremiah 36:21 So the king sent Jehudi to get the book, and he took it from the room of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi gave a reading of it in the hearing of the king and all the rulers who were by the king's side. (BBE)
Jeremiah 37:14 Then Jeremiah said, That is not true; I am not going to the Chaldaeans. But he would not give ear to him: so Irijah made him prisoner and took him to the rulers. (BBE)
Jeremiah 37:15 And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison. (BBE)
Jeremiah 38:4 Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage. (BBE)
Jeremiah 38:14 Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and took him into the rulers' doorway in the house of the Lord: and the king said to Jeremiah, I have a question to put to you; keep nothing back from me. (BBE)
Jeremiah 38:25 But if it comes to the ears of the rulers that I have been talking with you, and they come and say to you, Give us word now of what you have said to the king and what the king said to you, keeping nothing back and we will not put you to death; (BBE)
Jeremiah 38:27 Then all the rulers came to Jeremiah, questioning him: and he gave them an answer in the words the king had given him orders to say. So they said nothing more to him; for the thing was not made public. (BBE)
Jeremiah 44:21 The perfumes which you have been burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers and your kings and your rulers and the people of the land, had the Lord no memory of them, and did he not keep them in mind? (BBE)
Jeremiah 48:7 For because you have put your faith in your strong places, you, even you, will be taken: and Chemosh will go out as a prisoner, his priests and his rulers together. (BBE)
Jeremiah 49:3 Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers and his priests. (BBE)
Jeremiah 49:38 I will put the seat of my power in Elam, and in Elam I will put an end to kings and rulers, says the Lord. (BBE)
Jeremiah 50:35 A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men. (BBE)
Jeremiah 51:23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers. (KJV BBE DBY WBS)
Jeremiah 51:28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. (KJV BBE DBY WBS)
Jeremiah 51:57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. (KJV BBE DBY WBS)
Jeremiah 52:10 And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all the rulers of Judah in Riblah. (BBE)
Lamentations 1:6 And all her glory has gone from the daughter of Zion: her rulers have become like harts with no place for food, and they have gone in flight without strength before the attacker. (BBE)
Ezekiel 11:1 And the wind, lifting me up, took me to the east doorway of the Lord's house, looking to the east: and at the door I saw twenty-five men; and among them I saw Jaazaniah, the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah, rulers of the people. (BBE)
Ezekiel 17:12 Say now to this uncontrolled people, Are these things not clear to you? Say to them, See, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took its king and its rulers away with him to Babylon; (BBE)
Ezekiel 19:11 And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches. (BBE YLT NAS)
Ezekiel 21:12 Give loud cries and make sounds of grief, O son of man: for it has come on my people, it has come on all the rulers of Israel: fear of the sword has come on my people: for this cause give signs of grief. (BBE)
Ezekiel 22:6 See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you. (BBE NAS)
Ezekiel 22:25 Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her. (BBE)
Ezekiel 22:27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit. (BBE)
Ezekiel 23:6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)
Ezekiel 23:12 She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)
Ezekiel 23:15 With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea. (BBE YLT)
Ezekiel 23:23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)
Ezekiel 26:16 Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their high seats, and put away their robes and take off their clothing of needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief, they will take their seats on the earth, shaking with fear every minute and overcome with wonder at you. (BBE)
Ezekiel 27:21 Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with you; in lambs and sheep and goats, in these they did business with you. (BBE)
Ezekiel 45:8 And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers will no longer be cruel masters to my people; but they will give the land as a heritage to the children of Israel by their tribes. (BBE)
Ezekiel 45:9 This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord. (BBE)
Daniel 3:2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Daniel 3:3 Then the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Daniel 3:27 And the captains, the chiefs, and the rulers, and the king's wise men who had come together, saw these men, over whose bodies the fire had no power, and not a hair of their heads was burned, and their coats were not changed, and there was no smell of fire about them. (BBE)
Daniel 6:2 And over them were three chief rulers, of whom Daniel was one; and the captains were to be responsible to the chief rulers, so that the king might undergo no loss. (BBE)
Daniel 6:3 Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king's purpose to put him over all the kingdom. (BBE)
Daniel 6:4 Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him. (BBE)
Daniel 6:6 Then these chief rulers and the captains came to the king and said to him, O King Darius, have life for ever. (BBE)
Daniel 6:7 All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole. (BBE)
Daniel 7:27 The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. (See NIV)
Daniel 9:6 We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land. (BBE)
Daniel 9:8 O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you. (BBE)
Daniel 9:12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky has not been done as has been done on Jerusalem. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 11:39 And he will make use of the people of a strange god to keep his strongest places; to those whom he takes note of he will give high honour: and he will make them rulers over the mass of the people, and will make division of the land for a price. (BBE RSV NIV)
Hosea 4:18 Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS NAS NIV)
Hosea 5:10 The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water. (BBE)
Hosea 7:3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit. (BBE)
Hosea 7:5 On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride. (BBE)