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and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.

His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;

and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”

Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.”

“Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”

But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!

then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’

He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from Yahweh’s house. They came through the upper gate to the king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.

It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

“Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

For the kingdom is Yahweh’s. He is the ruler over the nations.

Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth.

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

The king sent and freed him, even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions,

He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.

which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.

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.