Bible on Leadership

Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt.

And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.

Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,

And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king’s face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.

And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.

For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;

And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.

And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.

And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.

And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD: because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,

And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not:

And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in.

Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.

He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,

And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler of the treasures.

Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.

He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.

Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.

For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.

He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;

The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.

The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.

I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.