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Verse Proverbs 20:8. _A KING THAT SITTETH IN THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT_]
Kings should see to the administration of the _laws_, as well as of
the _state transactions_, of their kingdom. In the British
co...
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CHAPTER 20 PROVERBS AS TO PERSONAL CONDUCT
Proverbs of warning and instructions as to personal conduct are found
mostly in this chapter; a number of them are of special interest if
applied to Solomon....
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PROVERBS 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9; Proverbs
20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self
characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thought.
P...
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EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44....
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_scattereth_ or _winnoweth_, R.V. marg., as the same Heb. word is
rendered (as suggested by the parallelism) in Proverbs 20:26....
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A KING, &C.— The wise man excites monarchs to hear causes in person,
as the best means of preventing abuses, and acquiring a true state of
their nation. Agreeably to this, we find Herodotus asserting,...
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CHAPTER 20
TEXT Proverbs 20:1-10
1.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler;
And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise,
2.
The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
He that provoketh him...
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1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man
sneer, quarrel and reel about....
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SCATTERETH AWAY] RM 'winnoweth' (1 Kings 3:28)....
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 20
V1 Wine is like a man who insults you. Beer is like a man who shouts
at you.
If wine and beer tempt you, then you are not wise....
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In Solomon’s time, the king was also a judge. God is also a king and
judge (Revelation 19:16; Revelation 20:11-12). God gives authority to
human judges (John 19:10-11). So we must respect them. A huma...
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A KING THAT SITTETH IN THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT... — See note on
Proverbs 16:12....
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מֶ֗לֶךְ יֹושֵׁ֥ב עַל ־כִּסֵּא ־דִ֑ין
מְזָרֶ֖ה...
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CHAPTER 21
IDLENESS
"After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in
the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4
WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimpse of t...
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SOBRIETY; INDUSTRY; HONESTY
Proverbs 20:1-15
Strong drink is the greatest of all foes to human happiness. It gains
an influence over men by fair promises, but when once it is
entrenched, it mocks at...
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Verse Proverbs 20:9. This is the eternal challenge which has but one
answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour.
Verse Proverbs 20:14. "It is bad, it is bad," is the descrip...
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A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment (d) scattereth away all
evil with his eyes.
(d) Where righteous judgment is executed, there sin ceases, and vice
dare not appear....
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_Look. It is the duty of kings to administer justice._...
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The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after
him. A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all
evil with his eyes. Who can say, I have made my heart clean...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31.
In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to
avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be
followe...
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A KING THAT SITTETH IN THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT,.... That executes
judgment himself, as David and Solomon did; who ascends the throne,
and sits personally there, and hears and tries causes himself, and...
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A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil
with his eyes.
Ver. 8. _A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment, &c._] Kings
in their own persons should sit and judge cau...
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_A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment_ That makes it his
great care and business to execute justice and judgment among his
people, especially if he do this in his own person, as it was usual...
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V. 8. A KING THAT SITTETH IN THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT, dispensing
justice in his capacity of sovereign, SCATTERETH AWAY ALL EVIL WITH
HIS EYES, he searches out, he sifts by winnowing, and so separates t...
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A KING THAT SITTETH IN THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT; that makes it his great
care and business to execute judgment and justice among his people,
especially if he do this in his own person, as was usual in a...
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Proverbs 20:8 king H4428 sits H3427 (H8802) throne H3678 judgment
H1779 Scatters H2219 (H8764) evil H7451 eyes...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions regarding the ways of folly.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Here in this imperfect state, no person can claim to be
sinless, but the just man, walking by the rule o...
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Proverbs 20:1. _Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging._ In the book
of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with
harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1. Cyrus, after notic...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 20:8 This catalog of proverbs looks at
judgment from various angles. The purpose of a KING, representing
human government, is to restrain evil through acts of judgment (v....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 20:6. Miller reads the first clause of this verse, “_Much
of the mere man one calls his goodness_,” _i.e._, “Much that is
merely human.” He allows, however, that the usual re...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 20:1
WINE IS A MOCKER; or, scorner, the word (_luts_) being taken up from
the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing
what men do under its influence. Thus...
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Into chapter 20.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise (Proverbs 20:1).
He will have more to say about wine as we move along in our study next
week,...
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1 Samuel 23:3; 1 Samuel 23:4; 2 Samuel 23:4; Isaiah 32:1; Proverbs 16
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His eyes — With his very looks, or by his diligent inspection into
affairs....