In the midst of trying times, both Job and David complained that the Lord had removed the crowns from their heads so that they now lived in shame and fear rather than in the esteem and joy once considered signs of God's favor. When kings fell in battle, their crowns were placed on the heads of their captors. David killed the man who brought him Saul's crown. He later took one from the king of Rabbah which weighed seventy pounds. When an Israelite become king he was to be given a copy of the Law to go with his crown.
Power increases in respect to the number of crowns one has.
Jesus is crowned with many crowns as representations of His many victories, virtues, and the number of nations He rules over. God the Father may be pictured wearing a five-tiered crown. The Pope wears a triple crown in honor of the Trinity. In Egypt, Pharaoh wore a double crown to signify his rule over the two kingdoms of Northern and Southern Egypt. The locusts sent to torment the earth in the last days wear gold-like crowns upon their heads as symbols of their authority to attack, and of their previous victories over their enemies.