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Government
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Paternal functions of
Genesis 41:25-57
Civil service school provided by
Daniel 1:3-20
Maintains of public instruction
2 Chronicles 17:7-9
Executive departments in
See
CABINET
See
KING
See
RULER
Judicial department in
See
COURT
See
JUDGE
See
JUSTICE
See
LEVITE
See
PRIEST
MOSAIC
ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL SYSTEM
Exodus 18:13-26
;
Numbers 11:16
Numbers 11:17
Numbers 11:24
Numbers 11:25
;
Deuteronomy 1:9-17
POPULAR, BY A NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES
Accepted, and agreed to, the law given by Moses
Exodus 19:7
Exodus 19:8
;
Exodus 24:3
Exodus 24:7
;
Deuteronomy 29:10-15
Refused to make conquest of Canaan
Numbers 14:1-10
Chose, or ratified, the chief ruler
Numbers 27:18-23
;
1 Samuel 10:24
;
8:4-22
;
1 Samuel 11:14
1 Samuel 11:15
;
2 Samuel 3:17-21
;
5:1-3
;
1 Chronicles 29:22
;
2 Chronicles 23:3
Possessed veto power over the kings purposes
1 Samuel 14:44
1 Samuel 14:45
The court in certain capital cases
Numbers 35:12
Numbers 35:24
Numbers 35:25
THE DELEGATED, SENATORIAL COUNCIL
Closely associated with Moses and subsequent leaders
Exodus 3:16
Exodus 3:18
;
4:29-31
;
12:21
;
Exodus 17:5
Exodus 17:6
;
18:12
;
Exodus 19:7
Exodus 19:8
;
Exodus 24:1
Exodus 24:14
;
Leviticus 4:15
;
9:1
;
Numbers 11:16-18
Numbers 11:30
;
16:25
;
Deuteronomy 1:13-15
;
5:23
;
27:1
;
29:10-15
;
Deuteronomy 31:9
Deuteronomy 31:28
;
Joshua 7:6
;
Joshua 8:10
Joshua 8:32
Joshua 8:33
;
Joshua 23:2
Joshua 23:3
Joshua 23:6
;
Joshua 24:1
Joshua 24:24
Joshua 24:25
;
Judges 21:16-25
;
Acts 5:17
Acts 5:18
Acts 5:21-41
MISCELLANY OF FACTS RELATING TO THE SENATE
Demands a king
1 Samuel 8:4-10
1 Samuel 8:19-22
Saul pleads to be honored before
1 Samuel 15:30
Chooses David as king
2 Samuel 3:17-21
;
5:3
;
1 Chronicles 11:3
Closely associated with David
2 Samuel 12:17
;
1 Chronicles 15:25
;
21:16
Joins Absalom in his usurpation
2 Samuel 17:4
David rebukes
2 Samuel 19:11
Assists Solomon at the dedication of the temple
1 Kings 8:1-3
;
2 Chronicles 5:2-4
Counsels king Rehoboam
1 Kings 12:6-8
1 Kings 12:13
Counsels king Ahab
1 Kings 20:7
1 Kings 20:8
Josiah assembles to hear the law of the Lord
2 Kings 23:1
;
2 Chronicles 34:29
2 Chronicles 34:31
Legislates with Ezra in reforming certain marriages with the heathen
Ezra 9:1
;
10:8-14
Legislates in later times
Matthew 15:2
Matthew 15:7-9
;
Mark 7:1-3
Sits as a court
Jeremiah 26:10-24
Constitutes, with priests and scribes, a court for the trial of both civil and ecclesiastical causes
Matthew 21:23
;
Matthew 26:3-5
Matthew 26:57-68
;
Matthew 27:1
Matthew 27:2
;
Mark 8:31
;
14:43-65
;
15:1
;
Luke 22:52-71
;
Acts 4:1-21
;
6:9-15
;
7:1-59
Unfaithful to the city
Lamentations 1:19
Seeks counsel from prophets
Ezekiel 8:1
;
14:1
;
Ezekiel 20:1
Ezekiel 20:3
;
Joel 1:14
;
2:16
Corrupt
1 Kings 21:8-14
;
Ezekiel 8:11
Ezekiel 8:12
;
Matthew 26:14
Matthew 26:15
;
Matthew 27:3
Matthew 27:4
A similar senate existed
Among the Egyptians
Genesis 50:7
;
Genesis 41:37
Genesis 41:38
;
Exodus 10:1
Exodus 10:7
;
12:30
;
14:5
Among the Midianites and Moabites
Numbers 22:4
Numbers 22:7
Among the Gibeonites
Joshua 9:11
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF TRIBES AND CITIES, CALLED PRINCES OR NOBLES, MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Numbers 1:4-16
Numbers 1:44
;
Numbers 7:2
Numbers 7:3
Numbers 7:10
Numbers 7:11
Numbers 7:18
Numbers 7:24
Numbers 7:54
Numbers 7:84
;
10:4
;
16:2
;
Numbers 17:2
Numbers 17:6
;
27:2
;
Numbers 31:13
Numbers 31:14
;
32:2
;
34:18-29
;
36:1
;
Joshua 9:15-21
;
17:4
;
22:13-32
;
1 Kings 21:11-13
;
Nehemiah 3:9
Nehemiah 3:12
Nehemiah 3:16
Nehemiah 3:18
Nehemiah 3:19
THE MOSAIC JUDICIAL SYSTEM
See
COURT
See
JUDGE
See
PRIEST
See
LEVITE
See
RULER
See
SANHEDRIN
See
SYNAGOGUE
Forms and facts of government after the death of Moses and the princes who survived Moses
See
ISRAEL, HISTORY OF
Under these sub-topics
See
JUDGES
See
KINGS
CONSTITUTIONAL
See
CONSTITUTION
ECCLESIASTICAL
See
CHURCH, GOVERNMENT OF
See
PRIESTS
IMPERIAL
Genesis 14:1
;
Joshua 11:10
;
Esther 1:1
;
Daniel 4:1
;
6:1-3
;
Luke 2:1
MONARCHICAL
Tyranny in, instances of
By Saul
1 Samuel 22:6
1 Samuel 22:12-19
By David
2 Samuel 1:13-16
;
4:9-12
;
11:14-17
By Solomon
1 Kings 2:23-25
1 Kings 2:28-34
1 Kings 2:36-46
;
12:1-16
;
21:7-16
;
2 Kings 10
By Ahasuerus
Esther 2
;
3
By Nebuchadnezzar
Daniel 1:10
;
2:5-13
;
5:19
By Herod
Mark 6:27
Mark 6:28
See
ISRAEL, HISTORY OF
Under these sub-topics
See
KINGS
Also see ASSYRIA; 493|
See
BABYLON
See
CHALDEA
See
SYRIA
Limited
See
CONSTITUTION
MUNICIPAL
Devolving upon a local senate and executive officers
Deuteronomy 19:12
;
Deuteronomy 21:2-8
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
;
22:13-21
;
25:7-9
;
Joshua 20:4
;
Judges 8:14-16
;
11:5-11
;
Ruth 4:2-11
;
1 Samuel 11:3
;
16:4
;
30:26
;
1 Kings 21:8-14
;
2 Kings 10:1-7
;
Ezra 10:8
Ezra 10:14
;
Nehemiah 3:9
Nehemiah 3:12
Nehemiah 3:16
Nehemiah 3:18
Nehemiah 3:19
;
Lamentations 5:14
PROVINCIAL
Ezra 4:8
Ezra 4:9
;
Ezra 5:3
Ezra 5:6
;
6:6
;
8:36
;
Nehemiah 2:7
Nehemiah 2:9
;
5:14
;
Daniel 6:1-3
;
Matthew 27:2
;
28:14
;
Luke 3:1
;
Acts 24:1
See
HEROD
See
PILATE
REPRESENTATIVE
Deuteronomy 1:13-15
;
Joshua 9:11
See DELEGATED, SENATORIAL COUNCIL, above
Also see ELDER 1573|
THEOCRATIC
Exodus 19:3-8
;
Deuteronomy 26:16-19
;
29:1-13
;
1 Samuel 8:6
1 Samuel 8:7
See GOVERNMENT, GOD IN, below
Also see RULERS
See
JUDGE
See
ELDER
See
CHURCH AND STATE
CORRUPTION IN
1 Kings 21:5-13
;
Proverbs 25:5
;
Micah 3:1-4
Micah 3:9-11
See
CHURCH, CORRUPTION IN
See
COURT, CORRUPT
Instances of
Pilate, in delivering Jesus to death in order to please the clamoring multitude
John 19:12-16
;
Matthew 27:24
Felix, who expected money from Paul
Acts 24:26
See
RULERS, WICKED, INSTANCES OF
DUTY OF CITIZENS TO
Matthew 22:17-21
;
Luke 20:25
;
Romans 13:1-7
;
Titus 3:1
;
1 Peter 2:13-17
See
CITIZEN
GOD IN
In appointment of Saul as king
1 Samuel 9:15-17
;
10:1
In Sauls rejection
1 Samuel 15:26-28
;
Acts 13:22
In the appointment of David
1 Samuel 16:1
1 Samuel 16:7
1 Samuel 16:13
;
2 Samuel 7:13-16
;
Psalms 89:19-37
;
Acts 13:22
In counseling Solomon
1 Kings 9:2-9
In magnifying him
1 Chronicles 29:25
In denouncing Solomons wickedness
1 Kings 11:9-13
In raising adversaries against Solomon
1 Kings 11:14
1 Kings 11:23
In dividing the Jewish nation into two different countries
1 Kings 11:13
;
12:1-24
;
2 Chronicles 10:15
;
11:4
;
22:7
In blotting out the household of Jeroboam
1 Kings 14:7-16
;
15:27-30
In the appointment of kings
1 Kings 14:14
;
16:1-4
;
1 Chronicles 28:4
1 Chronicles 28:5
;
29:25
;
Psalms 22:28
In the destruction of nations
Amos 9:8
See THEOCRATIC, above
Also see GOD, SOVEREIGN 2068|
UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO GOD IN
Psalms 22:28
;
Proverbs 8:15
;
Isaiah 9:6
Isaiah 9:7
;
Jeremiah 1:9
Jeremiah 1:10
;
18:6-10
;
25:12-33
;
Ezekiel 21:25-27
;
Ezekiel 29:19
Ezekiel 29:20
;
Daniel 2:20
Daniel 2:21
Daniel 2:37
;
4:17
;
5:18-28
;
10:13
;
Hosea 8:4
;
Amos 9:8
;
Haggai 2:21
Haggai 2:22
;
John 19:10
John 19:11
See
GOD, SOVERIGN
See
JESUS, KINGDOM OF
[B] indicates this entry was also found in Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
Bibliography Information
Nave, Orville J. "Entry for 'Government'". "Nave's Topical Bible".
. 1896.
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