Verse 30

He prevents godless men from ruling and laying snares for the people.

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  • 1 Kgs 12:28-30 : 28 After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt. 29 He set up one in Bethel, and the other in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin; the people came to worship the one at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other.
  • 2 Kgs 21:9 : 9 But they did not listen. Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
  • Job 34:21 : 21 For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees all his steps.
  • Ps 12:8 : 8 You, LORD, will keep them; you will protect them from this generation forever.
  • Prov 29:2-9 : 2 When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when a wicked ruler governs, the people groan. 3 A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but one who associates with prostitutes wastes his wealth. 4 A king establishes a land by justice, but a man who accepts bribes tears it down. 5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps. 6 An evil man is ensnared by his transgression, but the righteous rejoice and are glad. 7 The righteous care about the justice of the poor, but the wicked have no understanding of it. 8 Mockers stir up a city, but the wise calm anger. 9 When a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rages or laughs, there is no peace. 10 Bloodthirsty men hate the blameless, but the upright seek to preserve their life. 11 A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man calmly holds it back. 12 If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials become wicked.
  • Eccl 9:18 : 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to follow human commands.
  • Hos 13:11 : 11 I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 You have followed the statutes of Omri and all the practices of the house of Ahab; you have walked in their counsels. Therefore, I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of scorn; you will bear the reproach of My people.
  • 2 Thess 2:4-9 : 4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what restrains him, so that he will be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only the one now restraining it will do so until he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of His mouth and abolish by the splendor of His coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the workings of Satan, with all kinds of power, false signs, and wonders, 10 and with every kind of deceit targeting those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion, so that they will believe the lie,
  • Rev 13:3-4 : 3 One of the beast's heads appeared to have been fatally wounded, but its mortal wound was healed. The whole earth marveled and followed the beast. 4 They worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?"
  • Rev 13:11-14 : 11 Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and it makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. 13 It performs great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of the people. 14 It deceives those who dwell on the earth by the signs it was allowed to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.