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-ECCLESIASTICAL POWER SUPERIOR TO CIVIL .Appoints kings I Samuel 10:1 .Directs administration I Samuel 15:1-4 .Reproves rulers I Samuel 15:14-35 .Withdraws support and anoints a successor I Samuel 16:1-13; II Kings 9:1-26; 11:4-12 .Attempted usurpation of ecclesiastical functions by civil authorities, reproved I Samuel 13:8-14; II Chronicles 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 I Chronicles 23; 24; 25; II Chronicles 35:4 .Solomon, in thrusting Abiathar out of the high priest's office I Kings 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 I Kings 5:8 .Hezekiah, in reorganizing temple service II Chronicles 31:2-19 .Jeroboam, in subverting the Jewish religion I Kings 12:26-33 .Manasseh, in subverting, and afterward restoring, the true religion II Chronicles 33:2-9, 15-17 .Jehoash, in supervising the repairs of the temple II Kings 12:4-18 .Ahaz, in transforming the altars II Kings 16:10-16 .Josiah, in exercising the function of the priests in the temple II Chronicles 34:29-33 -STATE FAVORABLE TO RELIGION .Cyrus, in his proclamation to restore the temple at Jerusalem II Chronicles 36:22, 23; Ezra 1:1-11 .Darius, in his edict furthering the restoration of the temple Ezra 6:1-14 .Artaxerxes, in exempting priests, Levites, and other temple functionaries from taxes Ezra 7:24 .See GOVERNMENT .See TAX
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