Isaiah 16:5
Then a kingdom will be set up based on trustworthy love, and on its throne will sit a faithful king from the line of David. He will judge fairly, and will be passionately committed to doing what is right.
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2 Samuel 5:9David went and lived in the fortress, and named it The City of David. He extended it in all directions, starting from the outer supporting terraces and moving inwards.
2 Samuel 23:3Israel's God spoke; Israel's Rock told me, ‘He who rules the people justly, he who rules respecting God,
2 Chronicles 31:20This is what Hezekiah did throughout the whole of Judah. He did what was good, right, and true before the Lord his God.
Psalms 72:2May he rightly judge your people, and may he be fair to the poor.
Psalms 89:1I will sing of the Lord's trustworthy love forever; I will tell all generations of your faithfulness.
Psalms 96:13In fact, let everything that stands before the Lord sing praises, for he is coming, coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with fairness, and the nations with his truth.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 16:2-6
Exhortations to Moab. ( b. c. 725.) 1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. 3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for… Read the whole commentary →