Bible Verses About Magistrates: Gideon

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.

And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.