(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 12:10
So Joash the king of Israel went up, and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh which belongs to Judah. ... And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate — four hundred cubits. ... And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
(Old Covenants) 1 Chronicles 11:24
And of the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valor — a thousand seven hundred were officers among them of Israel on this side of Jordan westward, in all the business of the Lord and in the service of the king. ... And his brethren, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God and affairs of the king.
And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord. ... So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord. ... The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered burnt offerings, and grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with the best gold. ... And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold — none were of silver. ... It was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon, for the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram.
And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Speak with David secretly and say, Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you; now therefore be the king’s son-in-law. ... And David said, Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king’s son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?
(Old Covenants) Proverbs 2:197
Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him that speaks right.
(Old Covenants) Proverbs 2:324
A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.
(Covenant of Christ) Mosiah 5:8
You’re all witnesses today that Zeniff, who was made king over this people, was ambitious to reclaim his ancestral land as an inheritance. ... He was misled by the careful fraud of king Laman, who made a treaty with king Zeniff, giving him part of the land — including the city of Lehi-Nephi, the city of Shilom, and the surrounding area. ... Now, we pay taxes to the king of the Lamanites, giving them one-half of our corn, barley, and grain of every kind, as well as one-half of the increase of our flocks and herds. ... The king of the Lamanites even demands one-half of all that we own and threatens to take our lives if we fail to pay.
And it came to pass after this that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. ... And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king! ... And the king said unto her, What ails you? ... And it came to pass when the king heard the words of the woman that he rent his clothes.
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying, Inquire, I pray, of the Lord for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us, if it so be that the Lord will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us. ... Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall you say to Zedekiah: Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. ... And afterward, says the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city — from the pestilence, from the sword and from the famine — into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life.
(Covenant of Christ) Alma 12:22
And they were astonished to see the king and the queen and their servants lying on the ground; they all lay there as though they were dead. ... Now the people began to complain, some saying a great evil had come upon them — or upon the king and his house — because he had allowed this Nephite to remain in the land. ... But others reprimanded them, saying: The king has brought this evil upon his house because he killed his servants whose flocks had been scattered at the waters of Sebus. ... They were also rebuked by those men who had been at the waters of Sebus and who had scattered the king’s flocks, since they were angry with Ammon because of how many of their companions he had killed there while defending the king’s flocks.
Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of Heaven: Perfect peace. ... And at such a time, I make a decree that all they of the people of Israel and of his priests and Levites in my realm, who are determined of their own free will to go up to Jerusalem, go with you, forasmuch as you are sent of the king and of his seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God which is in your hand, and to carry the silver and gold which the king and his counselors have freely offered unto the God of Israel whose habitation is in Jerusalem, and all the silver and gold that you can find in all the province of Babylon with the freewill offering of the people and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem, that you may buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem. ... And whatever more shall be needful for the house of your God which you shall have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king’s treasure house.
And it was told to Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon, for behold, he has caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay his servant with the sword. ... So king Solomon sent and they brought him down from the altar. ... And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon, and Solomon said unto him, Go to your house.
(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 12:9
Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face. ... And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that grew in Lebanon sent to the cedar that grew in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son to wife.
And the people told the men of Gideon that they had slain the king, and his priests had fled from them farther into the wilderness. ... And it came to pass that after they had ended the ceremony, that they returned to the land of Nephi, rejoicing because their wives and their children were not slain; and they told Gideon what they had done to the king.
(Covenant of Christ) Mosiah 7:7
Then king Noah sent his armies against them, and they forced them back at first. ... Then they bragged and enjoyed war, and wanted to attack and kill their Lamanite relatives — because of the wicked leadership of their king and priests.
And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab, king of Israel. ... And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 7:19
And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace, to Jerusalem. ... And Jehu the son of Hanani, the seer, went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should you help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord?
In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years. ... And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
(Old Covenants) Proverbs 2:329
The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water: he turns it wherever he will.
(Old Covenants) Proverbs 2:151
The king’s favor is toward a wise servant, but his wrath is against him that causes shame.
(Old Covenants) Proverbs 2:281
The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion, but his favor is as dew upon the grass.
And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. ... Surely there was not held such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah, but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah wherein this passover was held to the Lord in Jerusalem. ... And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 13:8
And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelled in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the Lord. ... And Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.
(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 17:8
But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon. ... And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.