2,232 Bible Verses about Kings

Jeremiah 19:4

For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

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Psalms 45:1

[Psalm 45In Hebrew texts 45:1-17 is numbered 45:2-18.] My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

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2 Kings 1:9

The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down!’ ”

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2 Samuel 21:14

They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish, at Zela in Benjamin, and did everything the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer in behalf of the land.

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2 Chronicles 19:2

Jehu the seer, the son of Hanani, went out to meet him and said to the king, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD ?

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Esther 8:7

King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther, and they have impaled him on the pole he set up.

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2 Chronicles 20:15

He said: “Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem!

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2 Kings 12:21

And Amaziah his son succeeded him as king.

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1 Chronicles 15:29

As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David dancing and celebrating, she despised him in her heart.

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Ecclesiastes 10:20

Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird in the sky may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say.

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1 Kings 13:8

But the man of God answered the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water here.

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Deuteronomy 2:24

[Defeat of Sihon King of Heshbon] See, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his country. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.

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Jeremiah 22:15

“Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar? Did not your father have food and drink?

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Song of Songs 3:11

come out, and look, you daughters of Zion. Look on King Solomon wearing a crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.

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2 Chronicles 29:21

They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven male lambs and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary and for Judah. The king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer these on the altar of the LORD .

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2 Chronicles 2:3

Solomon sent this message to Hiram king of Tyre: “Send me cedar logs as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in.

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Ezekiel 17:15

But the king rebelled against him by sending his envoys to Egypt to get horses and a large army.

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Deuteronomy 17:15

be sure to appoint over you a king the LORD your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites.

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Luke 21:12

They will hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.

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Psalms 84:3

Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young— a place near your altar, LORD Almighty, my King and my God.

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Jeremiah 22:6

For this is what the LORD says about the palace of the king of Judah: “Though you are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, I will surely make you like a wasteland, like towns not inhabited.

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2 Samuel 24:2

So the king said to Joab and the army commanders with him, “Go throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and enroll the fighting men, so that I may know how many there are.”

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2 Kings 3:14

Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD Almighty lives, whom I serve, if I did not have respect for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not pay any attention to you.

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Jeremiah 19:13

The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.’ ”

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Nehemiah 2:18

I also told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me. They replied, “Let us start rebuilding.”

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