Psalms 105:22

American Standard Version (1901)

To bind his princes at his pleasure, And teach his elders wisdom.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 41:33 : 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 41:38 : 38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?
  • Gen 41:44 : 44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.
  • Isa 19:11 : 11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 105:17-21
    5 verses
    81%

    17He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant:

    18His feet they hurt with fetters: He was laid in [chains of] iron,

    19Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of Jehovah tried him.

    20The king sent and loosed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

    21He made him lord of his house, And ruler of all his substance;

  • 8To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron;

  • 10and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

  • Job 12:17-19
    3 verses
    70%

    17He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.

    18He looseth the bond of kings, And he bindeth their loins with a girdle.

    19He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.

  • 8That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.

  • 12And it is turned round about by his guidance, That they may do whatsoever he commandeth them Upon the face of the habitable world,

  • 45That they might keep his statutes, And observe his laws. Praise ye Jehovah.

  • Gen 41:33-34
    2 verses
    69%

    33Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

    34Let Pharaoh do [this], and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

  • 43and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had: and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he set him over all the land of Egypt.

  • 19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

  • Gen 41:40-41
    2 verses
    68%

    40thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

    41And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

  • 10Now therefore be wise, O ye kings: Be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

  • 26For his God doth instruct him aright, [and] doth teach him.

  • Ps 105:23-25
    3 verses
    68%

    23Israel also came into Egypt; And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

    24And he increased his people greatly, And made them stronger than their adversaries.

    25He turned their heart to hate his people, To deal subtly with his servants.

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    20and thou shalt teach them the statutes and the laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

    21Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

    22and let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge themselves: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear [the burden] with thee.

  • Prov 8:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.

    16By me princes rule, And nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.

  • 12and he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

  • 1The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever he will.

  • 8And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;

  • 13Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.

  • 43And he brought forth his people with joy, [And] his chosen with singing.

  • 21And he changeth the times and the seasons; he removeth kings, and setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that have understanding;

  • 4And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

  • 15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

  • 22And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.

  • 21He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.

  • 11The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

  • 24He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

  • 8So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.