Ecclesiastes 4:14

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Ecclesiastes 4:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible

12 And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

13 Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.

14 For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.

15 I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.

16 There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

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Genesis 41:14

So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:33

Now, therefore, Pharaoh should look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:34

Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

Genesis 41:35

Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.

Genesis 41:36

This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”

Genesis 41:37

This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his officials.

Genesis 41:38

So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?”

Genesis 41:39

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.

Genesis 41:40

You shall be in charge of my house, and all my people are to obey your commands. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”

Genesis 41:41

Pharaoh also told Joseph, “I hereby place you over all the land of Egypt.”

Genesis 41:42

Then Pharaoh removed the signet ring from his finger, put it on Joseph’s finger, clothed him in garments of fine linen, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

Genesis 41:43

He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, with men calling out before him, “Bow the knee!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:44

And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of Egypt shall lift his hand or foot.”

Job 5:11

He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

Psalms 113:7

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

Psalms 113:8

to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.

1 Kings 14:26

He seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made.

1 Kings 14:27

Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.

2 Kings 23:31

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

2 Kings 23:32

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.

2 Kings 23:33

And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Kings 23:34

Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died.

2 Kings 24:1

During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.

2 Kings 24:2

And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets.

2 Kings 24:6

And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.

2 Kings 24:12

Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.

2 Kings 25:7

And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

2 Kings 25:27

On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.

2 Kings 25:28

And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

2 Kings 25:29

So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.

2 Kings 25:30

And the king provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life.

Lamentations 4:20

The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

Daniel 4:31

While the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice came from heaven: “It is decreed to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that the kingdom has departed from you.