Difference between revisions of "Sceptre"

<p> shebet . ("Rod or staff of a ruler".) In &nbsp;Judges 5:14 translated "out of Zebulun marchers with the staff of the writer" or numberer, who levied and mustered the troops, so a leader in general. &nbsp;2 Kings 25:19, "principal scribe of the host which mustered the people"; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 26:11; &nbsp;Psalms 2:9, "thou shalt break them with a rod of iron." Whoever will not obey [[Thy]] loving sceptre, as the Good Shepherd, shall be crushed with an iron sceptre (&nbsp;Matthew 21:44; &nbsp;Daniel 2:34-35; &nbsp;Daniel 2:44). The iron kingdom Christ's iron sceptre shall break as clay. &nbsp;Psalms 125:3, "the sceptre of the wicked ''(World Power; "Persia" At This Time)'' shall not rest ''(Permanently)'' upon the lot of the righteous," namely, on the [[Holy]] Land: a psalm written after the return from Babylon. Contrast Christ's "right sceptre" (&nbsp;Psalms 45:6; &nbsp;Isaiah 11:3-4). </p>