Isaiah 3:4
And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.
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- Eccl 10:16 : 16 Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.
- 1 Kgs 3:7-9 : 7 And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in. 8 And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given. 9 Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
- 2 Chr 33:1 : 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chr 34:1 : 1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.
- 2 Chr 36:2 : 2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.
- 2 Chr 36:5 : 5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.
- 2 Chr 36:9 : 9 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months and ten days, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
- 2 Chr 36:11 : 11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years.
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- Isa 3:5-73 verses86%
5 And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.
6 When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:
7 Then he will say with an oath, I will not be a helper, for in my house there is no bread or clothing: I will not let you make me a ruler of the people.
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12 As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.
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16 Your children will take the place of your fathers; so that you may make them rulers over all the earth.
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16 Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.
- Isa 3:2-32 verses74%
2 The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;
3 The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.
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20 And their children will be as they were in the old days, and the meeting of the people will have its place before me, and I will send punishment on all who are cruel to them.
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1 See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.
- Lam 5:12-132 verses73%
12 Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
13 The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
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6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.
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10 But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.
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16 For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.
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13 A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.
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4 The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.
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2 You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.
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21 What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?
- 1 Sam 8:11-122 verses71%
11 And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;
12 And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.
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16 Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.
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15 And their king will be made prisoner, he and his captains together, says the Lord.
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21 Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.
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14 So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.
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2 When the upright have power, the people are glad; when an evil man is ruler, grief comes on the people.
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18 In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.
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15 I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.
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16 Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.
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4 May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.
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4 And I will give the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a hard king will be their ruler, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
- Ps 148:11-122 verses70%
11 Kings of the earth, and all peoples; rulers and all judges of the earth:
12 Young men and virgins; old men and children:
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8 To give him a place among the rulers, even with the rulers of his people.
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2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
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30 And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.
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9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king will be dead in him, and the hearts of the rulers; and the priests will be overcome with fear, and the prophets with wonder.
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23 And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.
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2 Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.
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2 Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.
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4 They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.
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14 I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.
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8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
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27 The king will give himself up to sorrow, and the ruler will be clothed with wonder, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled: I will give them punishment for their ways, judging them as it is right for them to be judged; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.
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14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;
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15 Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.
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4 Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.
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12 The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.
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5 And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.
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17 In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.