Proverbs 16:12 [
It is]
an abomination to kings to commit wickedness:
for the throne is established by righteousness.
Proverbs 20:8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: [
but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Deuteronomy 1:16 And I
charged your judges at that time, saying,
Hear [
the causes] between your brethren, and judge righteously between [
every] man and his brother, and
the stranger [
that is] with him.
Deuteronomy 16:18-
20 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. ... That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest
live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
2 Samuel 8:15 And David reigned
over all Israel; and
David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.
Psalms 58:1-
2 [[To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.]]
Do ye indeed speak righteousness,
O congregation? do ye judge uprightly,
O ye sons of men? ... Yea,
in heart ye work wickedness; ye
weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalms 72:1-
2 [[[
A Psalm] for Solomon.]]
Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto
the king's son. ...
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and
thy poor with judgment.
Job 29:12 Because
I delivered the poor that cried, and
the fatherless, and [
him that had] none to help him.
Job 29:15-
16 I was
eyes to the blind, and feet [
was] I to the lame. ... I [
was]
a father to the poor: and
the cause [
which] I knew not I searched out.
Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do well;
seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah 1:23 Thy
princes [
are] rebellious, and
companions of thieves:
every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards:
they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Isaiah 11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and
reprove with equity
for the meek of the earth:
and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and
with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Isaiah 32:1-
2 Behold, a
king shall reign in righteousness, and
princes shall rule in judgment. ... And
a man shall be as
an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as
rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a
great rock in a weary land.
Jeremiah 5:28 They are
waxen fat, they shine: yea, they
overpass the deeds of the wicked: they
judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless,
yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Jeremiah 22:3 Thus saith the LORD;
Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and
do no wrong,
do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow,
neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 22:15-
16 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest [
thyself] in cedar? did not
thy father
eat and drink,
and do judgment and justice, [
and]
then [
it was] well with him? ... He
judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [
it was] well [
with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 23:5 Behold,
the days come, saith the LORD, that
I will raise unto David a righteous
Branch, and a King shall
reign and prosper,
and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
Daniel 4:27 Wherefore, O king,
let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and
break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities
by shewing mercy to the poor;
if it may be a
lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Amos 5:11-
12 Forasmuch therefore as your
treading [
is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat:
ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted
pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. ... For
I know your
manifold transgressions and your mighty sins:
they afflict the just, they
take a
bribe, and they turn aside the poor
in the gate [
from their right].
Zechariah 7:9 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts,
saying,
Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
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.
John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Hebrews 1:9 Thou hast
loved righteousness, and
hated iniquity; therefore God, [
even]
thy God, hath
anointed thee with the
oil of gladness above
thy fellows.
Revelation 19:11 And I saw
heaven opened, and behold
a white horse; and he that sat upon him [
was] called
Faithful and True,
and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
