Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
11 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “king” →
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
