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Proverbs 8:15

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice - (; ; Daniel 4:26; .) If even "kings" owe their authority, and their power of reigning wisely and happily, to Wisdom, whose embodiment is Messiah, the King of kings, much more may we, as private individuals, depend on her for guidance in all our concerns. "Princes" are the chief rulers next to kings; it is their office, in subordination to kings, to enact laws and administer justice. Whatever of sound justice there is in their legislation and judicature is due to Divine Wisdom.

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See also Proverbs 8:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 8:15. _BY ME KINGS REIGN_] Every wise and prudent king is such through the influence of Divine wisdom. And just laws and their righteous administration come from this source. In this an...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Not only the common life of common men, but the exercise of the highest sovereignty, must have this Wisdom as its ground. Compare with this passage Proverbs 8:15 the teaching of 1 Kings 3:5. The word...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The call and appeal of wisdom (Proverbs 8:1)_ 2. What wisdom is and what wisdom gives (Proverbs 8:12) 3. Wisdom; the Person, who He is (Proverbs 8:22) 4. The renewed appeal ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 8. WISDOM SPEAKS IN HER OWN PERSON. This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a profoun...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BY ME KINGS REIGN. See Psalms 75:6; Psalms 75:7; Daniel 2:21; Daniel 2:47; Ro

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _kings reign_ If wisdom be needed for the conduct of common life, much more is it needed, and no less does it avail for the discharge of the highest official duties. Comp. 1 Kings 3:5-12....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BY ME KINGS REIGN— All authority and power come from God; and all those who are established over others have received from the author of this wisdom all their superiority. Whether God gives a prince i...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 8:12-21 12. I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion. 13. The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    8:15 rulers (h-6) Or 'ministers [of state],' as Judges 5:3 ; Psalms 2:2 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WISDOM'S CRY Wisdom now reappears as a preacher, holding forth in all the places where men most do congregate. After expounding in varied ways the excellence of the gifts which she can bestow, she ass...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 V1 The woman, who is called Wisdom, calls out. The woman, who is called Intelligence, is shouting....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Solomon, who wrote the Book of Proverbs, was a king. He knew that he was responsible for many people. When he was young, he wanted to be a good king. He studied wisdom so that he would rule wisely. Al...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    PRINCES. — Literally, _men of weight,_ or, _importance._...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בִּ֭י מְלָכִ֣ים יִמְלֹ֑כוּ וְ֝ רֹוזְנִ֗ים יְחֹ֣קְקוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 9 THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR "Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1 In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn. This chapter contains a lovely and living picture of...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

      “BETTER THAN GOLD” Proverbs 8:1-21 This chapter contains a bewitching picture of Wisdom as a noble matron. Were it not for this feminine touch, we might, suppose that the Preacher had become a Pr...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of t...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    By me (f) kings reign, and princes decree justice. (f) By which he declares that honours, dignities or riches do not come from man's wisdom or industry, but by the providence of God....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Things. Power and knowledge are the gift of the Almighty, Romans xii. 1. A prince who resembles God the most, is his best present. (Pliny in Trajan)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. Reader! do pause over these verses, and in the midst of admiring and adoring Christ in...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BY ME KINGS REIGN,.... Christ is the Prince of the kings of the earth, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; they are made kings by him, and are under him; he sets them up, and deposes them at pleasur...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _By me kings reign, and princes decree justice._ Ver. 15. _By me kings reign._] How, then, can the schoolmen defend Thomas Aquinas in that paradox, _Dominium et praelatio introducta sunt ex iure huma...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom_ Hebrew, ותושׁיה, _and essence_, that is, all solid, substantial, and useful wisdom is natural and essential to me. _I am understanding_ By my nature and essence. Or...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    By Me kings reign, making use of wisdom in their rule, and princes decree justice, for its full and proper administration is possible only by means of the knowledge from on high....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OF THE MESSIAH, THE PERSONAL WISDOM. The Richness of Wisdom's Gifts....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    To the writerProverbs 8:1 provides one of the clearest proofs that the Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not the only Scripture that proves this precious and wonderful...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-21 Wisdom, here is Christ, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; it is Christ in the word, and Christ in the heart; not only Christ revealed to us, but Christ revealed in us. All...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BY ME KINGS REIGN: either, 1. They get their kingdom by mine appointment and providence. Or rather, 2. They rule their kingdoms wisely, and justly, and happily, by my counsel and assistance; for thi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 8:15 kings H4428 reign H4427 (H8799) rulers H7336 (H8802) decree H2710 (H8779) justice H6664...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    3). WISDOM HATES EVIL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR BUT ENABLES JUST GOVERNMENT FROM THOSE WHO LOVE HER (PROVERBS 8:13). This subsection which majors on wisdom's role in ensuring just government where she i...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Praise of divine wisdom. Christ, the Wisdom of God, speaks to men. CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom (Christ). CONCLUSION: Right knowledge of the divine will concerning us is to be preferred above a...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 8:1. _Doth not Wisdom cry?_ This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and Wisd...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _By Me kings reign._ CHRISTIAN LOYALTY I. The special cause that we have for increased thankfulness to God. 1. We ought to be thankful for any event which tends to secure the blessings of peace to...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:14 Wisdom can give the simple person the same INSIGHT used by KINGS and RULERS when they GOVERN nations...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 8:14_ THE SOURCE OF TRUE POWER I. MORAL WISDOM IS THE STRENGTH OF KINGS. “I have strength; by me kings rule.” There is a kind of strength in all wisdom. T...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 8:1 14. _Fourteenth admonitory discourse _concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1; and the exceeding grea...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 28:5; 1 Kings 10:9; 1 Kings 3:28; 1 Kings 3:9; 1 Kings 5:7

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    By me — They rule their kingdoms wisely and justly, by my counsel and assistance. Their injustice is from themselves, but all the good they do, they owe to my conduct....

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