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

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

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