CHURCH AND STATE
ECCLESIASTICAL POWER SUPERIOR TO CIVIL
Appoints kings 1SA 10:1
Directs administration 1SA 15:1-4
Reproves rulers 1SA 15:14-35
Withdraws support and anoints a successor 1SA 16:1-13; 2KI 9:1-26; 11:4-12
Attempted usurpation of ecclesiastical functions by civil authorities, reproved 1SA 13:8-14; 2CH 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 1CH 23; 24; 25; 2CH 35:4
Solomon, in thrusting Abiathar out of the high priest's office 1KI 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 1KI 5:8
Hezekiah, in reorganizing temple service 2CH 31:2-19
Jeroboam, in subverting the Jewish religion 1KI 12:26-33
Manasseh, in subverting, and afterward restoring, the true religion 2CH 33:2-9,15-17
Jehoash, in supervising the repairs of the temple 2KI 12:4-18
Ahaz, in transforming the altars 2KI 16:10-16
Josiah, in exercising the function of the priests in the temple 2CH 34:29-33
STATE FAVORABLE TO RELIGION
Cyrus, in his proclamation to restore the temple at Jerusalem 2CH 36:22,23; EZR 1:1-11
Darius, in his edict furthering the restoration of the temple EZR 6:1-14
Artaxerxes, in exempting priests, Levites, and other temple functionaries from taxes EZR 7:24
See GOVERNMENT
See TAX
