2 Chronicles 9:8

Modern English Version

May the Lord your God be blessed, who has delighted in you, to set you as king on the throne of the Lord your God. Your God has loved Israel to establish them continually and has set you as king over them to perform justice and righteousness.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:3

The God of Israel said, the rock of Israel spoke to me: He who rules over man justly, who rules in the fear of God,

2 Samuel 8:15

David reigned over all of Israel, and he administered fair judgments to all of his people.

1 Kings 10:9

Blessed be the Lord your God, who delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel, because the Lord loved Israel forever; therefore He made you king in order to execute judgment and justice.”

1 Kings 3:28

All Israel heard of the king’s judgment, and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to execute sound judgment.

1 Chronicles 17:22

For You made Your people Israel for Yourself for a people forever, and You, O  Lord, have become their God.

1 Chronicles 28:5

Of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons), He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

1 Chronicles 29:10

So David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly, and David said, “Blessed are You, O  Lord, the God of Israel, our Father forever and ever.

1 Chronicles 29:20

Then David said to all the assembly, “Bless now the Lord your God.” So all the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers. They bowed down and paid homage to the Lord and the king.

1 Chronicles 29:23

Then Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of David his father, and he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.

2 Chronicles 13:8

“And now you think that you can withstand before the kingdom of the Lord by the hand of the sons of David. And you all are a great multitude, and with you are the golden calves that Jeroboam has made for you to be gods.

2 Chronicles 2:10

I will provide for the woodsmen, your servants who cut timber, twenty thousand dry kors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand kors of barley, twenty thousand liquid baths of wine, and twenty thousand liquid baths of oil.”

2 Chronicles 2:11

Then Hiram king of Tyre responded in a letter that he sent to Solomon, “Because the Lord loves His people, He has made you king over them.”

2 Chronicles 9:7

How happy your men must be! How happy these servants, those who are continually before you listening to your wisdom.

2 Chronicles 9:9

Then she gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold and a great abundance of spices and precious stones. And there were no spices like those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

Psalm 18:19

He also brought me forth into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in me.

Psalm 22:8

“Trust in the Lord, let Him rescue him; let Him deliver him, since He delights in him.”

Psalm 72:2

May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your poor with justice.

Psalm 99:4

The King in His might loves justice; You have established equity; You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Proverbs 29:4

The king by justice establishes the land, but a man of bribes overthrows it.

Isaiah 42:1

Behold My servant, whom I uphold, My chosen one, in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth justice to the nations.

Isaiah 62:4

You shall no more be termed Forsaken, nor shall your land be termed Desolate; but you shall be called My Delight Is In Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.

Isaiah 9:7

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to order it and to establish it with justice and with righteousness, from now until forever. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this.

Deuteronomy 7:8

But it is because the Lord loved you and because He kept the oath which He swore to your fathers. The Lord brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.