Ezekiel 26:7
Ezekiel 26:77For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops.
The Watchtower cites — where Nebuchadnezzar is called "the king of kings" — alongside to argue that "King of kings" is a transferable imperial title. The phrase carries no ontological weight when applied to Jesus in on this reading — it simply marks him as supreme among earthly rulers.
Scripture uses "king of kings" at two different altitudes, and is useful because it establishes the lower one explicitly. Nebuchadnezzar is "the king of kings" in the sense of a human emperor at the top of a human hierarchy — supreme among peers, not supreme over all reality. applies "Lord of lords" to Jehovah in a different, ontological sense — supreme over every reality that exists. When calls Jesus "Lord of lords and King of kings" and explains that he is this (not that he was appointed to the role), the echo matches , not . confirms the altitude: the one "King of kings" is also the one who "alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light" — attributes Nebuchadnezzar never had. shows that Scripture can use the phrase at the human-emperor altitude; it does not dictate that every use is at that altitude.