Bible Verses About Rulers: Character and qualifications of

Nowe therefore let Pharaoh prouide for a man of vnderstanding and wisedome, and set him ouer the land of Egypt.

Moreouer, prouide thou among al the people men of courage, fearing God, men dealing truely, hating couetousnesse: and appoynt such ouer them to be rulers ouer thousandes, rulers ouer hundreths, rulers ouer fifties, and rulers ouer tennes.

And let them iudge the people at all seasons: but euery great matter let them bring vnto thee, and let them iudge all small causes: so shall it be easier for thee, when they shall beare the burden with thee.

Thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and peruerteth the wordes of the righteous.

Bring you men of wisedome and of vnderstanding, and knowen among your tribes, and I will make them rulers ouer you:

Iudges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy cities, which the Lord thy God giueth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall iudge the people with righteous iudgement.

Wrest not thou ye Law, nor respect any person, neither take rewarde: for the reward blindeth ye eyes of the wise, and peruerteth ye worde of ye iust.

That which is iust and right shalt thou follow, that thou maiest liue, and possesse the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee.

Cursed be he that hindreth the right of the stranger, the fatherles, and the widow: And all the people shall say: So be it.

The God of Israel spake to me, ye strength of Israel saide, Thou shalt beare rule ouer men, being iust, and ruling in the feare of God.

Euen as the morning light when the sunne riseth, the morning, I say, without cloudes, so shall mine house be, and not as the grasse of the earth is by the bright raine.

And thou Ezra (after the wisedome of thy God, that is in thine hand) set iudges and arbiters, which may iudge all the people that is beyond the Riuer, euen all that knowe the Lawe of thy God, and teach ye them that know it not.

Be wise nowe therefore, ye Kings: be learned ye Iudges of the earth.

Serue the Lord in feare, and reioyce in trembling.

A Psalme of Salomon. Give thy iudgements to the King, O God, and thy righteousnesse to the Kings sonne.

Then shall he iudge thy people in righteousnesse, and thy poore with equitie.

The mountaines and the hilles shall bring peace to the people by iustice.

He shall iudge the poore of the people: he shall saue the children of the needie, and shall subdue the oppressor.

They shall feare thee as long as the sunne and moone endureth, from generatio to generation.

He shall come downe like the rayne vpon the mowen grasse, and as the showres that water the earth.

In his dayes shall the righteous florish, and abundance of peace shalbe so long as the moone endureth.

His dominion shall be also from sea to sea, and from the Riuer vnto the endes of the land.

They that dwell in ye wildernes, shall kneele before him, and his enemies shall licke the dust.

The Kings of Tarshish and of the yles shall bring presents: the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring giftes.

Yea, all Kings shall worship him: all nations shall serue him.