GOD AS KING (& SHEPHERD AND COVENANT MAKER)

KING:
(This is not an exhaustive list. The word group "king, be king" occurs more than 3,000 times
in the FT/OT. After YHWH, God ('elohim), and son, the term "king" is the fourth most
frequently occurring noun in the FT, even more frequent than Israel. If you don't have a
concordance, you may use the Bible Works in the computer lab or go to
http://www.searchgodsword.org
See what references to YHWH as king, ruler, YHWH's rule, reign, etc. you can find. (If you list
the references in some way, give me a copy and I will make copies for the class or post to
Moodle.)
The following Psalms consider God as King:
Pss 24, 29, 47, 74:12-17; 93, 95-99, 146

Exod 15:18 The LORD will reign forever and ever.

Num 23:21 He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob; nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their
God is with them, acclaimed as a king among them.
Judg 8:23 Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the
LORD will rule over you.
1 Sam 8:7 and the LORD said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you;
for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.
1 Sam 10:19 But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your
distresses; and you have said, No! but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the
LORD by your tribes and by your clans.
1 Sam 12:12 But when you saw that king Nahash of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me,
No, but a king shall reign over us, though the LORD your God was your king.
Ps 10:16 The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations shall perish from his land.
Ps 44:4 You are my King and my God; you command victories for Jacob.
Ps 84:3 Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her
young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.
Ps 145:1 I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.
Ps 149:2 Let Israel be glad in its Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.
Isa 24:21-23 On that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven in heaven,
and on earth the kings of the earth.
They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit;
they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished.
Then the moon will be abashed, and the sun ashamed;
for the LORD of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
and before his elders he will manifest his glory.
Isa 41:21 Set forth your case, says the LORD; bring your proofs, says the king of Jacob.
Isa 43:15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your king.
Isa 44:6 Thus says the LORD, the king of Israel, and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: I am the first
and I am the last; besides me there is no god.
Isa 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who
brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns.
Jer 10:6-7 There is none like you, O LORD;
you are great, and your name is great in might.
Who would not fear you, O king of the nations? For that is your due;
among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is no one like you.
Jer 10:8-10 They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!
Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the artisan and of
the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is blue and purple; they are all the product of skilled workers.
But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting king. At his wrath the earth
quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Zeph 3:14-19 Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel!
Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem!
The LORD has taken away the judgments against you, he has turned away your enemies.
The king of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall fear disaster no more.
On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:
Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands grow weak.
The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory;
he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing as on a day of festival.
I will remove disaster from you, so that you will not bear reproach for it.
I will deal with all your oppressors at that time.
And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and
renown in all the earth.
Zech 14:9 And the LORD will become king over all the earth; on that day the LORD will be one and
his name one.
Zec. 14:16-17 Then all who survive of the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year
after year to worship the king, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the festival of booths. If any of the
families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the king, the LORD of hosts, there will be no
rain upon them.

COVENANT MAKER: Review the covenants with Noah (Gen 9); Abraham (Gen 15 & 17);
Moses/Sinai (Exo 19-24); David (2 Sam 7); covenant of peace (Num 25:12; Isa 54:10; Ezek 34:25;
37:26)

SHEPHERD:
Gen 48:15 He blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my ancestors Abraham and Isaac
walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
Gen 49:24 Yet his bow remained taut, and his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of
Jacob, by the name of the shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
Isa 40:11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms, and carry them
in his bosom, and gently lead the mother sheep.
Jere 13:17 But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep
bitterly and run down with tears, because the LORDs flock has been taken captive.
Jere 23:1-3 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD.
Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people:
It is you who have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them.
So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the LORD. Then I myself will gather the remnant of
my flock out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and
they shall be fruitful and multiply.
Jere 31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, He
who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd a flock.
Ezeke 34:11-16 For thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them
out. As shepherds seek out their flocks when they are among their scattered sheep, so I will seek out
my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they have been scattered on a day of clouds
and thick darkness. I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will
bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses,
and in all the inhabited parts of the land. I will feed them with good pasture, and the mountain heights
of Israel shall be their pasture; there they shall lie down in good grazing land, and they shall feed on
rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will make
them lie down, says the Lord GOD. I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will
bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed
them with justice.
Mic3 7:14 shepherd your people with your staff, the flock that belongs to you, which lives alone in a
forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.
Ps 23:1-4 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters;
he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his names sake.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil;
for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.
Ps 28:9 O save your people, and bless your heritage; be their shepherd, and carry them forever.
Ps 74:1 O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your
pasture?
Ps 78:52-55 Then he led out his people like sheep,
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid;
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
And he brought them to his holy hill,
to the mountain that his right hand had won.
He drove out nations before them;
he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Ps 80:1 Give ear, O shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon
the cherubim, shine forth
Ps 95:7 For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
O that today you would listen to his voice!
Ps 100:3 Know that the LORD is God. It is he that made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.