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