Genesis 19:9
19:9 “Out of our way!” they cried, and “This man came to live here as a foreigner, and now he dares to judge us! We’ll do more harm to you than to them!” They kept pressing in on Lot until they were close enough to break down the door.
Genesis 37:8-11
37:8 Then his brothers asked him, “Do you really think you will rule over us or have dominion over us?”
They hated him even more
because of his dream and because of what he said.
37:9 Then he had another dream, and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said. “I had another dream. The sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
37:10 When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, “What is this dream that you had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?”
37:11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what Joseph said.
Genesis 37:19-20
37:19 They said to one another, “Here comes this master of dreams!
37:20 Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild
animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”
Numbers 16:3
16:3 And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “You take too much upon yourselves,
seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the
Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the
Lord?”
Numbers 16:13
16:13 Is it a small thing
that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey,
to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince
over us?
Psalms 2:2-6
2:2 The kings of the earth form a united front;
the rulers collaborate
against the Lord and his anointed king.
2:3 They say, “Let’s tear off the shackles they’ve put on us!
Let’s free ourselves from their ropes!”
2:4 The one enthroned in heaven laughs in disgust;
the Lord taunts them.
2:5 Then he angrily speaks to them
and terrifies them in his rage, saying,
2:6 “I myself have installed my king
on Zion, my holy hill.”
Matthew 21:23
The Authority of Jesus
21:23 Now after Jesus entered the temple courts, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”
Luke 12:14
12:14 But Jesus
said to him, “Man,
who made me a judge or arbitrator between you two?”
Luke 19:14
19:14 But his citizens
hated
him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man
to be king
over us!’
Luke 19:27
19:27 But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king,
bring them here and slaughter
them
in front of me!’”
Acts 7:26-28
7:26 The next day Moses
saw two men
fighting, and tried to make peace between
them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’
7:27 But the man who was unfairly hurting his neighbor pushed
Moses
aside, saying, ‘
Who made you a ruler and judge over us?
7:28 You don’t want to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’
Acts 7:35
7:35 This same
Moses they had rejected, saying, ‘
Who made you a ruler and judge?’
God sent as both ruler and deliverer
through the hand of the angel
who appeared to him in the bush.