Isaiah 3:4
I will give boys to be their princes, And children shall rule over them.
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- Eccl 10:16 : 16 Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, And your princes eat in the morning!
- 1 Kgs 3:7-9 : 7 Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child; I don't know how to go out or come in. 8 Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude. 9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?
- 2 Chr 33:1 : 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chr 34:1 : 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chr 36:2 : 2 Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chr 36:5 : 5 Jehoiakim was Twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God.
- 2 Chr 36:9 : 9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
- 2 Chr 36:11 : 11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Isa 3:5-73 verses86%
5 The people will be oppressed, Everyone by another, And everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, And the base against the honorable.
6 Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, And let this ruin be under your hand."
7 In that day he will cry out, saying, I will not be a healer; For in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people.
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12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.
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16 Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.
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16 Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, And your princes eat in the morning!
- Isa 3:2-32 verses74%
2 The mighty man, The man of war, The judge, The prophet, The diviner, The elder,
3 The captain of fifty, The honorable man, The counselor, The skilled craftsman, And the clever enchanter.
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20 Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them.
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1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.
- Lam 5:12-132 verses73%
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
13 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
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6 Children's children are the crown of old men; The glory of children are their parents.
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10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
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16 For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
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13 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.
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4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
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2 From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, Because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
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21 What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?
- 1 Sam 8:11-122 verses71%
11 He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;
12 and 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.
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16 Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
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15 And their king will go into captivity, He and his princes together," says Yahweh.
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21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up, and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.
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14 Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, And all your fortresses will be destroyed, As Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
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2 When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; But when the wicked rule, the people groan.
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18 [Their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
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15 I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
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16 By me princes rule; Nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.
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4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, And will break the oppressor in pieces.
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4 I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.
- Ps 148:11-122 verses70%
11 Kings of the earth and all peoples; Princes and all judges of the earth;
12 Both young men and maidens; Old men and children:
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8 That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.
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2 to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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30 The firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant shall be killed.
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9 It shall happen at that day, says Yahweh, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
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23 Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.
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2 In rebellion, a land has many rulers, But order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.
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2 Hear, heavens, And listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me.
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4 They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn't approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, That they may be cut off.
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14 I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.
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8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
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27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
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14 With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
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15 As a roaring lion or a charging bear, So is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
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4 His children are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
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12 They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
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5 The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."
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17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make your officers peace, and righteousness your ruler.