According to the Tanakh, however, Ahab with 7, 000 troops had previously overthrown Ben-hadad and his thirty-two kings, who had come to lay siege to Samaria, and in the following year obtained a decisive victory over him at Aphek, probably in the plain of Sharon at Antipatris ( 1 Kings 20 ).

In 357, there appear to have been two paramount kings ( Chnodomar and Westralp ) who probably acted as presidents of the confederation and seven other kings ( reges ).

The latter king seems to have fought a sea battle against 32 kings who had gathered against him.

Alexander's shortage of funds immediately made him subservient to the Polish Senate and nobility ( szlachta ), who deprived him of control of the mint ( then one of the most lucrative sources of revenue for the Polish kings ), curtailed his prerogatives, and generally endeavored to reduce him to a subordinate position.

As Alfred observed in the preface to his English translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, kings who fail to obey their divine duty to promote learning can expect earthly punishments to befall their people.

In Alfred Duggan's Conscience of the King, a historical novel about Cerdic, founder of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British general who rose independently to military power, forming alliances with various British kings and setting out to drive the invading Saxons from Britain.

The " goat-man " who gave his name to the Aegean Sea was, next to Poseidon, the father of Theseus, the founder of Athenian institutions and one of the kings of Athens.

Athens at once appealed to Sparta to punish this act of medism, and Cleomenes I, one of the Spartan kings, crossed over to the island, to arrest those who were responsible for it.

He also quotes an inscription from the 10th Century king of Sri Lanka, Mahinda IV ( 956-972 CE ) who had the words inscribed " none but the bodhisattvas would become kings of Sri Lanka ", among other examples.

In the Prose Edda Snorri Sturluson quotes many stanzas attributed to Bragi Boddason the old ( Bragi Boddason inn gamli ), a court poet who served several Swedish kings, Ragnar Lodbrok, Östen Beli and Björn at Hauge who reigned in the first half of the 9th century.

Bede wrote in Latin and never used the term and his list of kings holding imperium should be treated with caution, not least in that he overlooks kings such as Penda of Mercia, who clearly held some kind of dominance during his reign.

However, it is also possible to divide the book into three parts rather than four by combining the sections treating David and Solomon, since they both ruled over a combined Judah and Israel, unlike the last section that contains the chronicle of the Davidic kings who ruled the Kingdom of Judah alone.

They are followed by a further wicked king, or " little horn ", who subdues three of the ten ( 7: 24 ), speaks against the Most High, wages war against the saints, and attempts to change the set times and laws ( 7: 25 ); after ' a time and times and half a time ', this king is judged and stripped of his kingdom by an " Ancient of Days " and his heavenly court ( 7: 26 ); next, " one like a son of man " approaches the Ancient of Days and is invested with worldwide dominion ; moreover, his everlasting reign over all kings and kingdoms is shared with " the people of the Most High " ( 7: 27 )

Next comes the main text (), six stories each concerning a major judge and their struggles against the oppressive kings of surrounding nations, plus the story of Abimelech, an Israelite who oppresses his own people.

Further themes are also present: the " sovereign freedom of Yahweh " ( God does not always do what is expected of him ); the " satirisation of foreign kings " ( who consistently underestimate Israel and Yahweh ); the concept of the " flawed agent " ( judges who are not adequate to the task before them ) and the disunity of the Israelite community ( which gathers pace as the stories succeed one another ).

The kings who follow Rehoboam in Jerusalem continue the royal line of David ( i. e., they inherit the promise to David ); in the north, however, dynasties follow each other in rapid succession, and the kings are uniformly bad ( meaning that they fail to follow Yahweh alone ).

This apparition is also deeply unsettling to Macbeth, who not only wants the throne for himself, but also desires to father a line of kings.

Ancient Chinese records mention two kings, Shrutavarman and Shreshthavarman who ruled at the capital Shreshthapura located in modern day southern Laos.

Cambodia enjoyed a brief period of prosperity during the 16th century because its kings, who built their capitals in the region southeast of the Tonle Sap along the Mekong River, promoted trade with other parts of Asia.

Later in the 11th Century the Varangian Guard became dominated by Anglo-Saxons who preferred this way of life to subjugation by the new Norman kings of England.

Bede's first abbot was Benedict Biscop, and the names " Biscop " and " Beda " both appear in a king list of the kings of Lindsey from around 800, further suggesting that Bede came from a noble family.

Ancient resources as well as recent archaeological evidence suggest that, at one point, Caligula had the palace extended to annex this structure. When several kings came to Rome to pay their respects to him and argued about their nobility of descent, he cried out " Let there be one Lord, one King ".

In due course, opposition to the divine right of kings came from a number of sources, including poet John Milton in his pamphlet The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates.

After David II's death, Robert II, the first of the Stewart kings, came to the throne in 1371.

Many kings came to the throne at a young age and died in the prime of life, weakening royal power further.

Under the two preceding kings, Amon and Manasseh, idolatry had been introduced in the most shameful forms ( especially the cult of Baal and Astarte ) into the Holy City, and with this foreign cult came a foreign culture and a great corruption of morals.

Following the Frankish victory at the Battle of Soissons in 486 AD, Gaul ( except for Septimania ) came under the rule of the Merovingians, the first kings of France.

He spoke of a notation made by Snorri Sturluson, a 13th-century historian-mythographer in Ynglinga Saga which relates that " Odin ( a Scandinavian god who was one of the kings ) came to the North with his people from a country called Aser.

In 747, a Buddhist saint, Padmasambhava ( known in Bhutan as Guru Rimpoche and sometimes referred to as the Second Buddha ), came to Bhutan from India at the invitation of one of the numerous local kings.

It appears that the Uí Chóelbad kings of Dál nAraidi came to control the Glens of Antrim in the years after the battle.

As he matured he came to be well known beyond his power base in Worms and Speyer, so when the Saxon line died off and the elected monarchy for the German realm stood vacant, he was elected King in 1024 at the respectably old age of thirty-four years and crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on 26 March 1027, becoming the first of four kings and emperors of the Salian Dynasty.

Towards the close of the 11th century crusading knights came from every part of Europe to aid the kings of León, Castile and Aragon in fighting the Moors.

Thereafter the royal house of Wessex, who became the kings of England, made a point of devotion to Cuthbert, which also had a useful political message, as they came from opposite ends of the united English kingdom.

When it was time for Tyndareus ' step-daughter Helen to marry, many Greek kings and princes came to seek her hand, or sent emissaries to do so on their behalf.

The symbolic coronation was an important step ; other kings of Britain came and gave their allegiance to Edgar shortly afterwards at Chester.

The tradition of crowning kings at Reims contributed to the reputation of the wines that came from this area.

According to Swazi royalist tradition, these chiefdoms came to be classified in the Dlamini kingdom as the Emakhandzambile category of clans (" those found ahead ", e. g. the Gamedze ), meaning that they were on the land prior to Dlamini immigration and conquest, as opposed to the Bomdzabuko (" true Swazi ") who accompanied the Dlamini kings, and the Emafikemuva (" those who came behind ") who joined the kingdom later.

When it was time for Helen to marry, many kings and princes from around the world came to seek her hand, bringing rich gifts with them, or sent emissaries to do so on their behalf.

However, Spartan kings, who served as the city-state's dual military and religious leaders, came from two families.

The kings of the Old Testament were anointed with oil and only afterwards did they receive Power through the Holy Spirit that came upon them.

Áedán's dominance came to an end around 604, when his army, including Irish kings and Bernician exiles, was defeated by Æthelfrith at the battle of Degsastan.

They came out of the second intermediate period in control of Avaris and the nile delta and ruled Lower Egypt as semite kings ( fifteenth dynasty ).

According to the stories Gangnihessou came from a dynasty that in the 16th century had come, from Tado on the river Moro, a place that now lies in Togo, to Allada, and there became kings of Great Ardra.