According to him, they did not live as nomads, did acknowledge a single king, observed a well-regulated constitution, and behaved justly towards neighboring states.

When the king of Khwarezm offered friendship to Alexander the Great in 328 BC, Alexander's Greek and Roman biographers imagined the nomad king of a desert waste, but 20th century Russian archeologists revealed the region as a stable and centralized kingdom, a land of agriculture to the east of the Aral Sea, surrounded by the nomads of Central Asia, protected by its army of mailed horsemen, in the most powerful kingdom northwest of the Amu Darya ( the Oxus River of antiquity ).

In 771 the Quanrong nomads drove the Zhou out of the Wei River valley and killed the king.

Qin would not become a major vassal state until five generations later, when King Ping of Zhou granted Duke Xiang of Qin a formal nobility rank and recognition as a feudal lord for protecting the king during the invasion of the Dog Rong nomads.

While under Crusader control, the Bedouin nomads were generally left to themselves, although the king collected taxes on caravans passing through.

According to Josephus, he was prevented from attacking the vassal king of Adiabene by an invasion of the eastern nomads.

In later Assyrian and Babylonian texts, the name Akkad, together with Sumer, appears as part of the royal title, as in the Sumerian LUGAL KI. EN. GIR < sup > KI </ sup > URU < sup > KI </ sup > or Akkadian Šar māt Šumeri u Akkadi, translating to " king of Sumer and Akkad ".

From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.

Homer appears to know nothing of all these tragic occurrences, and we learn from him only that, after the death of Thyestes, Aegisthus ruled as king at Mycenae and took no part in the Trojan expedition.

Just then, Haman appears, to ask the King to hang Mordechai, but before he can make this request, King Ahasuerus asks Haman what should be done for the man that the king wishes to honor.

* an expansion of the scene in which Esther appears before the king, with a mention of God's intervention

In one notable instance, Columba appears to King Oswald of Northumbria, in a dream, and he announced the king ’ s incoming victory against King Catlon.

The following year Ragnall appears to have returned across the Irish sea intent on establishing himself as king at York.

An elven king occasionally appears among the predominantly female elves as in Denmark and Sweden.

The later history of Kent shows clear evidence of a system of joint kingship, with the kingdom being divided into east Kent and west Kent, although it appears that there generally was a dominant king.

He was a contemporary of Ibrium of Ebla who appears to have lived in the late 25th or early 24th century BC, according to the king list.

The term appears in the context of an oracle against a dead king of Babylon, who is addressed as הילל בן שחר ( hêlêl ben šāḥar ), rendered by the King James Version as " Lucifer, son of the dawn " and by others as " morning star, son of the dawn ".

He appears to have been a weak king, as his nicknames suggest.

Duncan appears to have been tánaise ríg, the king in waiting, so that far from being an abandonment of tanistry, as has sometimes been argued, his kingship was a vindication of the practice.

Minos appears in Greek literature as the king of Knossos as early as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Máel Coluim appears to have kept his agreement with the late English king, which may have been renewed with the new king, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred.

As had happened previously, the Lord told the king ( who appears to be a spiritual leader as well as a secular leader ) to lead the righteous Nephites out of the land of Nephi, their ancestral home for the previous 400 years, to a new place.

When Belisarius was sent back to Italy in 544 to cope with a renewal of the war with the Goths, now led by the able king Totila, Procopius appears to have no longer been on Belisarius ' staff.

For most of Pictish recorded history the kingdom of Fortriu appears dominant, so much so that king of Fortriu and king of the Picts may mean one and the same thing in the annals.

The name Stockholm first appears in historical records in letters written by Birger jarl and king Valdemar dated 1252.

From a Phoenician inscription on its lid, it appears that he was a " king of the Sidonians ," probably in the 5th century BCE, and that his mother was a priestess of ‘ Ashtart, " the goddess of the Sidonians.

Stephen's accession to the throne still needed to be ratified by the Pope, however, and Henry of Blois appears to have been responsible for ensuring that testimonials of support were sent both from Stephen's elder brother Theobald and from the French king Louis VI, to whom Stephen represented a useful balance to Angevin power in the north of France.

Neither mission was particularly successful and by the end of 1137 the king appears to have abandoned attempts to put down the rebellion.

No help was forthcoming from Stephen's brother Theobald this time either, who appears to have been preoccupied with his own problems with France — the new French king, Louis VII, had rejected his father's regional alliance, improving relations with Anjou and taking a more bellicose line with Theobald, which would result in war the following year.

The king of Nineveh puts on sackcloth and sits in ashes, making a proclamation to decree fasting, sackcloth, prayer, and repentance.

" So Midas, king of Lydia, swelled at first with pride when he found he could transform everything he touched to gold ; but when he beheld his food grow rigid and his drink harden into golden ice then he understood that this gift was a bane and in his loathing for gold, cursed his prayer " ( Claudian, In Rufinem ).

Taylor found clay cylinders in the four corners of the top stage of the ziggurat which bore an inscription of Nabonidus ( Nabuna ` id ), the last king of Babylon ( 539 BC ), closing with a prayer for his son Belshar-uzur ( Bel-ŝarra-Uzur ), the Belshazzar of the Book of Daniel.

The action ends with the French king adopting Henry as his heir to the French throne and the prayer of the French queen " that English may as French, French Englishmen, receive each other, God speak this Amen.

Leofric's penitential, the Leofric Missal, still survives, and it includes a prayer for a childless king, which probably referred to King Edward.

The king is then reputed to have turned all the gold to stone through a prayer, allowing him to put his army on the march again, defeat the raiders and free their captives.

The Coronation of Henry VII and Margaret at Milan in 1311 --- As the king enters the choir the prayer, " Almighty, everlasting God of heaven and earth ,..." is said and then the Oath is put to the king in interrogatory form.

The Litany of the Saints is sung, concluded by three prayers, " We invoke you ...," " God who the people ...," and " On this day ..." The consecratory prayer then said, " Almighty, everlasting God, Creator and Governor of the world ,..." While the antiphon " Favorer of the Just ..." or " Zadok the Priest ...," is sung while the king is anointed on shoulders, after which is said the prayer, " God the Son of God ..."

The king is given a ring with the, " Receive the ring of royal dignity ...", followed by the prayer, " God with whom is all power ...".

The sword is given with the words, " Receive this sword ...", followed by the prayer, " God whose providence ..." The king is crowned with the words, " Receive this royal crown ...", followed by the prayer, " God of Continuity ..." The Scepter is given with the words, " Receive the scepter of royal power ...", followed by the prayer, " Lord, fount of all goodness ..." and finally the verge is given the king with the words, " Receive the rod of virtue and dignity ..." followed by six blessing.

St Bertam was a 8th Century son of a Mercian king who renounced his royal heritage for prayer and meditation after his wife and child were killed by wolves.

The Prayer of Manasseh is a short work of 15 verses of the penitential prayer of king Manasseh of Judah.

Despite Ramesses IV's many endeavours for the gods and his prayer to Osiris — preserved on a Year 4 stela at Abydos — that " thou shalt give me the great age with a long reign my predecessor ", the king did not live long enough to accomplish his ambitious goals.

Dulness calls forth her servants to herald the new king, and the book ends with Dulness's prayer, which takes an apocalyptic tone in the new version:

The range of his work is extensive, from elegant court songs including Lyk as the dum Solsequium and Melancholie, grit deput of Dispair to the bitter, sometimes contorted word-play of the sonnets associated with the dispute over his pension, from witty pieces addressed to the king to the profound religious sensibility of A godly prayer and the extraordinary Come, my childrene dere.

Citizens sometimes wrote letters of prayer to the king, either present or past.

The legend describes Alexander ( as a Christian king ) bowing himself in prayer, saying: