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CHURCH

CHURCH AND STATE @

- ECCLESIASTICAL POWER SUPERIOR TO CIVIL .Appoints kings kjv@1Samuel:10:1 .Directs administration kjv@1Samuel:15:1-4 .Reproves rulers kjv@1Samuel:15:14-35 .Withdraws support and anoints a successor kjv@1Samuel:16:1-13; kjv@2Kings:9:1-26; kjv@2Kings:11:4-12 .Attempted usurpation of ecclesiastical functions by civil authorities, reproved kjv@1Samuel:13:8-14; kjv@2Chronicles: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 kjv@1Chronicles:23; 24; 25; kjv@2Chronicles:35:4 .Solomon, in thrusting Abiathar out of the high priest's office kjv@1Kings: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 kjv@1Kings:5:8 .Hezekiah, in reorganizing temple service kjv@2Chronicles:31:2-19 .Jeroboam, in subverting the Jewish religion kjv@1Kings:12:26-33 .Manasseh, in subverting, and afterward restoring, the true religion kjv@2Chronicles:33:2-9 kjv@2Chronicles:33:15-17 .Jehoash, in supervising the repairs of the temple kjv@2Kings:12:4-18 .Ahaz, in transforming the altars kjv@2Kings:16:10-16 .Josiah, in exercising the function of the priests in the temple kjv@2Chronicles:34:29-33

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