Isaiah 10:8
“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.
BSB
ASV
For he saith, Are not my princes all of them kings?
KJV
For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Ezekiel 26:7For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company…
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Artaxerxes, king of kings. To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven: Greetings.
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You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given sovereignty, power, strength, and glory.
They will come against you with a host of peoples, with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will array themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will delegate judgment…
The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress…
And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
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2 Kings 19:10“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of…
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Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. No king of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.
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Daniel 2:37You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given sovereignty, power, strength, and glory.
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For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company…
So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.
