Bible Concordances
Church and State

Nave's Topical Bible

• ECCLESIASTICAL POWER SUPERIOR TO CIVIL
  • Appoints kings
    1 Samuel 10:1
  • Directs administration
    1 Samuel 15:1-4
  • Reproves rulers
    1 Samuel 15:14-35
  • Withdraws support and anoints a successor
    1 Samuel 16:1-13; 2 Kings 9:1-26; 11:4-12
  • Attempted usurpation of ecclesiastical functions by civil authorities, reproved
    1 Samuel 13:8-14; 2 Chronicles 26:16-21

• STATE SUPERIOR TO RELIGION
  • David, in organizing the priests and Levites in courses, and appointing musicians, instruments, and other details of religious services
    1 Chronicles 23; 24; 25; 2 Chronicles 35:4
  • Solomon, in thrusting Abiathar out of the high priest's office
    1 Kings 2:26,27
  • Solomon, in overshadowing the ecclesiastical in building the temple, and officiating primarily in the dedication, intercessory or priestly prayer, pronouncing the benediction, etc
    1 Kings 5:8
  • Hezekiah, in reorganizing temple service
    2 Chronicles 31:2-19
  • Jeroboam, in subverting the Jewish religion
    1 Kings 12:26-33
  • Manasseh, in subverting, and afterward restoring, the true religion
    2 Chronicles 33:2-9,15-17
  • Jehoash, in supervising the repairs of the temple
    2 Kings 12:4-18
  • Ahaz, in transforming the altars
    2 Kings 16:10-16
  • Josiah, in exercising the function of the priests in the temple
    2 Chronicles 34:29-33

• STATE FAVORABLE TO RELIGION
  • Cyrus, in his proclamation to restore the temple at Jerusalem
    2 Chronicles 36:22,23; Ezra 1:1-11
  • Darius, in his edict furthering the restoration of the temple
    Ezra 6:1-14
  • Artaxerxes, in exempting priests, Levites, and other temple functionaries from taxes
    Ezra 7:24
  • See GOVERNMENT
  • See TAX