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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
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