Psalms 105:22

World English Bible (2000)

to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 41:33 : 33 "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 41:38 : 38 Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"
  • Gen 41:44 : 44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you 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 counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?"

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  • Ps 105:17-21
    5 verses
    81%

    17He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

    18They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

    19until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh's word proved him true.

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

    21He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;

  • 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. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

  • Job 12:17-19
    3 verses
    70%

    17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

    18He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

    19He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

  • 8that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

  • 12It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,

  • 45that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!

  • Gen 41:33-34
    2 verses
    69%

    33"Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, 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's produce in the seven plenteous years.

  • 43and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" 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
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    68%

    40You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you."

    41Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."

  • 10Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

  • 26For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him.

  • Ps 105:23-25
    3 verses
    68%

    23Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

    24He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

    25He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

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    20You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

    21Moreover you shall 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.

    22Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

  • Prov 8:15-16
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    15By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

    16By me princes rule; nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.

  • 12and he will appoint them to 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 Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

  • 8If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

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

  • 43He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.

  • 21He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;

  • 4I will give boys to be their princes, and children 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.

  • 22The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.

  • 21He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

  • 11The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?"

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

  • 8So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.