CHURCH AND STATE
Appoints kings
Directs administration
Reproves rulers
Withdraws support and anoints a successor
Attempted usurpation of ecclesiastical functions by civil authorities, reproved
David, in organizing the priests and Levites in courses, and appointing musicians, instruments, and other details of religious services
Solomon, in thrusting Abiathar out of the high priest’s office
Solomon, in overshadowing the ecclesiastical in building the temple, and officiating primarily in the dedication, intercessory or priestly prayer, pronouncing the benediction, etc
Hezekiah, in reorganizing temple service
Jeroboam, in subverting the Jewish religion
Manasseh, in subverting, and afterward restoring, the true religion
Jehoash, in supervising the repairs of the temple
Ahaz, in transforming the altars
Josiah, in exercising the function of the priests in the temple
Cyrus, in his proclamation to restore the temple at Jerusalem
Darius, in his edict furthering the restoration of the temple
Artaxerxes, in exempting priests, Levites, and other temple functionaries from taxes