Then they brought these men before the king. ... Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not anxious to answer you in this matter. ... If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. ... But if not, be it known unto you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.
The ram which you saw having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. ... And the rough goat is the king of Greece, and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. ... And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce countenance and understanding dark sentences shall stand up.
Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king’s chamberlains whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was and why it was. ... So Hathach went forth to Mordecai, unto the street of the city which was before the king’s gate. ... And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them. ... Also, he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to show it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him and to make request before him for her people.
Now these are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel smote and possessed their land on the other side of Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto Mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east: Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelled in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river (and from half Gilead) even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; and from the plain to the Sea of Chinneroth on the east and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth, and from the south under Ashdoth-Pisgah. ... And the borders of Og king of Bashan, who was of the remnant of the giants that dwelled at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, and reigned in Mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
And it came to pass that Amalickiah took that same servant that slew the king, and also they who were with him, and went in unto the queen, unto the place where she sat. ... And they all testified unto her that the king was slain by his own servants; and they said also, They have fled; does not this testify against them? ... And thus they satisfied the queen concerning the death of the king.
(Covenant of Christ) Alma 21:29
Amalickiah took the same servant who killed the king, and also those who were with him, and went to see the queen at her throne. ... They all testified to her that the king was killed by his own servants. ... And so they satisfied the queen regarding the king’s death.
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto Jerusalem and besieged it. ... And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god.
(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 10:2
And he said unto them, Behold, the king’s son shall reign, as the Lord has said of the sons of David. ... And a third part shall be at the king’s house, and a third part at the gate of the foundation. ... And the Levites shall encompass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand, and whoever else comes into the house, he shall be put to death. ... But be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.
And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, as whatever the king did pleased all the people. ... For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner. ... And the king said unto his servants, Do you not know that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? ... And I am this day weak, though anointed king.
They spoke and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. ... You, O king, have made a decree that every man that shall hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image; and whoever falls not down and worships, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. ... These men, O king, have not regarded you; they serve not your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.
(Covenant of Christ) Mosiah 9:19
Following this the king of the Lamanites committed to them that his people wouldn’t kill them. ... And Limhi, the king’s son, by a vote of the people, had the kingdom conferred on him. ... He also agreed with the king of the Lamanites that his people would pay taxes to him of half of everything they had.
(Old Covenants) Jeremiah 15:17
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. ... And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsekim chief of the eunuchs, Nergalsharezer chief of the magi, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. ... And it came to pass that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls; and he went out the way of the plain. ... Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes. ... Also, the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
And it came to pass that king Lamoni was much pleased with Ammon, and caused that his bands should be loosed; and he would that Ammon should take one of his daughters to wife. ... Therefore, Ammon became a servant to king Lamoni. ... And after he had been in the service of the king three days, as he was with the Lamanitish servants going forth with their flocks to the place of water, which was called the water of Sebus — and all the Lamanites drive their flocks hither that they may have water — therefore, as Ammon and the servants of the king were driving forth their flocks to this place of water, behold, a certain number of the Lamanites, who had been with their flocks to water, stood and scattered the flocks of Ammon and the servants of the king; and they scattered them insomuch that they fled many ways.
And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the Lord and for the king’s house, harps also, and psalteries for singers; there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
So when all Israel saw that the king listened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion do we have in David?
(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 4:5
And when all Israel saw that the king would not listen unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David?
And it came to pass that his servants ran and told the queen all that had happened unto the king, and she came in unto the king; and when she saw him lay as if he were dead, and also Aaron and his brethren standing as though they had been the cause of his fall, she was angry with them, and commanded that her servants, or the servants of the king, should take them and slay them. ... Now the servants had seen the cause of the king’s fall, therefore they durst not lay their hands on Aaron and his brethren.
(Covenant of Christ) Mosiah 13:8
King Mosiah wrote many more things to them, explaining all the trials and troubles of a righteous king: the worrying for his people and the people’s complaints to their king; he explained it all to them. ... He also explained the disadvantages they labored under by having an unrighteous king rule over them: the risks of iniquities and abominations, and the wars, conflicts, slaughter, theft, plunder, whoredoms, and all kinds of sin which can’t all be named, telling them these things should be avoided by them, that they were directly contrary to God’s commandments.
(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 11:10
And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king, in the court of the house of the Lord. ... Thus, Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son.
(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 12:8
And it came to pass as he talked with him that the king said unto him, Are you made of the king’s counsel?
(Covenant of Christ) Alma 21:28
Now the queen, when she had heard that the king was killed — for Amalickiah had sent a message to the queen informing her that the king had been killed by his servants, and that he had pursued them with his army, but it was in vain and they had escaped — therefore when the queen had received this message, she sent a message to Amalickiah, asking him to spare the people of the city. ... She also asked him to bring witnesses with him to testify about the king’s death.
In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, begin to reign. ... And his mother’s name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
So all the elders of Israel came to the king, to Hebron, and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord. ... And they anointed David king over Israel.
And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and there followed him a mess of food from the king. ... But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord and went not down to his house.
(Covenant of Christ) Alma 21:27
And all those who loved the king, when they heard these words, came forward and went after the king’s servants. ... When the king’s servants saw an army pursuing them, they were frightened again and fled into the wilderness and came over into the land of Zarahemla and joined Ammon’s people.