Kings in the Bible

King

The word “king” is in Scripture very generally used to denote one invested with authority, whether extensive or limited. There were thirty-one kings in Canaan (Josh. 12:9, 24), whom Joshua subdued. Adonibezek subdued seventy kings (Judg. 1:7).
In the New Testament the Roman emperor is spoken of as a king (1 Pet. 2:13, 17); and Herod Antipas, who was only a tetrarch, is also called a king (Matt. 14:9; Mark 6:22).
This title is applied to God (1 Tim. 1:17), and to Christ, the Son of God (1 Tim. 6:15-16; Matt. 27:11). The people of God are also called “kings” (Dan. 7:22, 27; Matt. 19:28; Rev. 1:6, etc.). Death is called the “king of terrors” (Job 18:14).
Jehovah was the sole King of the Jewish nation (1 Sam. 8:7; Isa. 33:22). But there came a time in the history of that people when a king was demanded, that they might be like other nations (1 Sam. 8:5). The prophet Samuel remonstrated with them, but the people cried out, “Nay, but we will have a king over us.” The misconduct of Samuel's sons was the immediate cause of this demand.
The Hebrew kings did not rule in their own right, nor in name of the people who had chosen them, but partly as servants and partly as representatives of Jehovah, the true King of Israel (1 Sam. 10:1).
The limits of the king's power were prescribed (1 Sam. 10:25).
The officers of his court were:

1. the recorder or remembrancer (2 Sam. 8:16; 1 Kings 4:3)
2. the scribe (2 Sam. 8:17; 20:25
3. the officer over the house, the chief steward (Isa. 22:15
4. the “king's friend,” a confidential companion (1 Kings 4:5)
5. the keeper of the wardrobe (2 Kings 22:14)
6. captain of the bodyguard (2 Sam. 20:23)
7. officers over the king's treasures, etc. (1 Chr. 27:25-31)
8. commander-in-chief of the army (1 Chr. 27:34)
9. the royal counsellor (1 Chr. 27:32; 2 Sam. 16:20-23).

Israel's kings (before its division) Saul David Solomon Israel's kings (after division) Jeroboam Nadab Baasha Elah Zimri Tibni Omri Ahab Ahaziah Jehoram Jehu Jehoahaz Jehoash Jeroboam Zechariah Shallum Menahem Pekahiah Pekah Hoshea Judah's kings Rehoboam Abijah Asa Jehoshaphat Jehoram Ahaziah Athaliah Joash Amaziah Uzziah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah Manasseh Amon Josiah Jehoahaz Jehoiakim Jehoiachin Zedekiah

Kings in the Bible (alphabetical) Abijam Abimelech Achbor Achish Adoni-zedec Adonizedek Agag Agrippa I Ahab Ahasuerus Ahaz Ahaziah Alexander the Great Amaziah Amon Amraphel Aretas Arioch Artaxerxes Asa Asnapper Baal-hanan Baalis Baasha Bela Belshazzar Ben-hadad Berodach-baladan Birsha Chedorlaomer Chushan-rishathaim Cyrus Debir Eglon Elah Eliakim Eth-baal Evil-merodach David Hadad Hadadezer Hanun Herod Agrippa I Herod the Great Hezekiah Hiram Hoham Hoshea Hur Jabin Japhia Jechoniah (Jechonias) Jehoash Jehoiachin Jehoiakim Jehoram Jehoshaphat Jehu Jeroboam Joash Jobab Josiah Lemuel Melchizedek Menahem Mesha Nadab Nahash Nebuchadnezzar Necho II Nimrod Og Omri Oshea Osnapper Piram Pul Rehoboam Rezin Rezon Sargon Saul Sennacherib Shallum Shalman Shemeber Shinab Shishak I So Solomon Talmai Tiglath-Pileser III Tirhakah Toi Uzziah Xerxes Zachariah Zedekiah Zerah

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