Verse 4

Since the king’s word has authority, who can question him, saying, 'What are you doing?'

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  • Job 9:12 : 12 If He snatches away, who can stop Him? Who can say to Him, 'What are You doing?
  • Job 34:18-19 : 18 Is it right to say to a king, 'You are worthless,' or to nobles, 'You are wicked'? 19 God shows no partiality to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of His hands.
  • Rom 13:1-4 : 1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been established by God. 2 Therefore, whoever resists authority is resisting what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will receive its approval. 4 For the ruler is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God's servant, an avenger who carries out wrath on the wrongdoer.
  • Prov 19:12 : 12 A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
  • Prov 20:2 : 2 The roar of a king is like the growl of a young lion; whoever provokes him to anger risks his life.
  • Prov 30:31 : 31 a strutting rooster, a he-goat, and a king secure against revolt.
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 Now, if you are ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the statue I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will immediately be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace. And who is the god who can rescue you from my hands?'
  • Luke 12:4-5 : 4 I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body but can do nothing more afterward. 5 But I will warn you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after killing, has the authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him!
  • Rom 9:20 : 20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its maker, 'Why have you made me like this?'
  • Job 33:12-13 : 12 But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than a man. 13 Why do you contend with Him? For He does not answer all of man's words.
  • 1 Kgs 2:25 : 25 Then King Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, who struck down Adonijah, and he died.
  • 1 Kgs 2:29-34 : 29 It was reported to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of the LORD and was by the altar. So Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, 'Go, strike him down!' 30 When Benaiah reached the tent of the LORD, he said to Joab, 'The king says, “Come out.”' But Joab replied, 'No, I will die here.' So Benaiah went back to the king and reported, 'This is how Joab answered me.' 31 The king said to him, 'Do as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and my father's house the guilt of the blood that Joab shed without cause. 32 The LORD will bring back his blood on his own head, because he struck down two men more righteous and better than himself—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel's army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah's army—killing them with the sword without my father David knowing it. 33 Their blood will come back on the head of Joab and his descendants forever, but there will be peace from the LORD forever for David, his descendants, his house, and his throne. 34 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck down Joab, and killed him. He was buried at his house in the wilderness.
  • 1 Kgs 2:46 : 46 Then the king gave the order to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck Shimei down, and he died. So the kingdom was firmly established in Solomon’s hands.