Quotes About Royalty

The throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to it. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, with a lion standing beside each armrest.

Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.

Year after year, each visitor would bring his tribute: articles of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.

Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, intending to make him king.

Dressed in royal attire, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs of the house of Judah.

But Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziahís sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she could not kill him.

a third shall be at the royal palace, and a third at the Foundation Gate, while all the others are in the courtyards of the house of the LORD.

Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His motherís name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.

Let it now be known to the king that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are restored, they will not pay tribute, duty, or toll, and the royal treasury will suffer.

See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?

with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.

And if anything else is needed for the house of your God that you may have occasion to supply, you may pay for it from the royal treasury.

They also delivered the kingís edicts to the royal satraps and governors of the region west of the Euphrates, who proceeded to assist the people and the house of God.

In those days King Xerxes sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa.

At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.

Beverages were served in an array of goblets of gold, each with a different design, and the royal wine flowed freely, according to the kingís bounty.

Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

On the seventh day, when the kingís heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas—

to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.

Then the kingís attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king,

She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.