In the first month — that is, the month Nisan — in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur — that is, the lot — before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month — that is, the month Adar. ... And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from all people, neither keep they the king’s laws; therefore, it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them. ... If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries. ... And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy. ... And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.
Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon to speak unto him for Adonijah. ... And the king rose up to meet her and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand. ... And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother, for I will not say to you, Nay. ... And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah?
And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David’s spears and shields that were in the temple of the Lord. ... And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple. ... And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony. ... And they made him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, God save the king.
In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years; then he turned and rebelled against him. ... Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? ... And the king of Egypt came not again anymore out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
And the king talked with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray you, all the great things that Elisha has done. ... And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. ... And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life. ... And when the king asked the woman, she told him. ... So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land even until now.
Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, in order to show the king his dreams. ... So they came and stood before the king, and the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. ... Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in Syriac, O king, live for ever. ... The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king’s matter, therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. ... And it is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other that can show it before the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
Again Esther spoke unto Hathach and gave him commandment unto Mordecai: All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces do know that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his: to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. ... But I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
(Old Covenants) 1 Chronicles 3:10
All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the host, and Zadok the priest did the king put in the place of Abiathar.
(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 3:9
And she gave the king a hundred twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones. ... Neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon. ... And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the Lord and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers. ... And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought unto the king.
Now when every maid’s turn had come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after she had been twelve months according to the manner of the women (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished — that is, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors and with other things for the purifying of the women), then, thus came every maiden unto the king: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king’s house. ... In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz the king’s chamberlain who kept the concubines; she came in unto the king no more except the king delighted in her and that she was called by name.
And behold, I have seen in the days of king Benjamin a serious war, and much bloodshed, between the Nephites and the Lamanites. ... But behold, the Nephites did obtain much advantage over them; yea, insomuch that king Benjamin did drive them out of the land of Zarahemla.
During king Benjamin’s time I’ve seen a serious war and tremendous slaughter between the Nephites and Lamanites. ... But the Nephites won a great victory over them, and king Benjamin drove them out of the land of Zarahemla.
(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 16:6
Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, and the altar of burnt offering with all the vessels thereof, and the showbread table with all the vessels thereof. ... Moreover, all the vessels which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression have we prepared and sanctified, and behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons and slew seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them, to Jezreel. ... And there came a messenger and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.
And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and stayed in a place that was far off. ... And all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
There are four things which are little upon the earth but they are exceedingly wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands; the spider takes hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah, king of Judah, to reign. ... And the Lord smote the king so that he was a leper unto the day of his death and dwelled in a separate house. ... And Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land. ... And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
(Teachings and Commandments) Abraham Facsimile 3
Abraham sitting upon Pharaoh’s throne, by the politeness of the king, with a crown upon his head representing the Priesthood, as emblematical of the grand presidency in Heaven with the scepter of justice and judgment in his hand. ... King Pharaoh, whose name is given in the characters above his head. ... Prince of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, as written above the hand. ... Shulem, one of the king’s principal waiters, as represented by the characters above his hand. ... Abraham is reasoning upon the principles of astronomy in the king’s court.
Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar! ... And it was the preparation of the Passover and about the sixth hour, and he says unto the Jews, Behold your king! ... Pilate says unto them, Shall I crucify your king? ... The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom. ... Blessed be the Lord your God who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel, because the Lord loved Israel for ever; therefore he made you king, to do judgment and justice. ... And she gave the king a hundred twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones; there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard who served the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem and burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and all the houses of the great men burned he with fire. ... Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king has commanded his servant, so shall your servant do. ... As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table as one of the king’s sons. ... So Mephibosheth dwelled in Jerusalem, for he did eat continually at the king’s table and was lame on both his feet.
And it came to pass that king Lamoni inquired of his servants, saying, Where is this man that has such great power? ... Now the king had commanded his servants, previous to the time of the watering of their flocks, that they should prepare his horses and his chariots and conduct him forth to the land of Nephi, for there had been a great feast appointed at the land of Nephi by the father of Lamoni, who was king over all the land. ... Now when king Lamoni heard that Ammon was preparing his horses and his chariots, he was more astonished because of the faithfulness of Ammon, saying, Surely there has not been any servant among all my servants that has been so faithful as this man, for even he doth remember all my commandments to execute them.
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. ... And 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. ... Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?