Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Proverbs 16:14
Is as messengers of death; is as terrible as if many messengers were sent to denounce the sentence of death, and to execute it. Will pacify it; will use all prudent and lawful means to pacify it.
Is as messengers of death; is as terrible as if many messengers were sent to denounce the sentence of death, and to execute it. Will pacify it; will use all prudent and lawful means to pacify it.
While Proverbs 16:13 depicts the king as he ought to be, this verse reminds us of the terrible rapidity with which, in the despotic monarchies of the East, punishment, even death, follows royal disple...
CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart; b...
PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
MESSENGERS, &C. Illustrations: Benaiah (1 Kings 2:25); Haman (Esther 7:8). PACIFY IT. get it covered....
_messengers of death_ The reckless fury of the Eastern despot (1 Samuel 22:16-18; Esther 7:7-10; Daniel 2:5) is but the abuse of the awful justice of the Archetypal King ...
TEXT Proverbs 16:12-22 12. It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; For the throne is established by righteousness. 13. Righteous lips are the delight of kings; And they love him that...
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. THE WRATH OF A KING IS AS MESSENGERS OF DEATH. The plural expresses manifold forms of death which are at the king's co...
1-9. God's control of human life....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s, the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil action...
An angry king is very dangerous. Many people may suffer if the king is unhappy (Matthew 2:16). When the king is angry, his servants must call a wise man. The wise man will know what to say to the king...
חֲמַת ־מֶ֥לֶךְ מַלְאֲכֵי ־מָ֑וֶת וְ אִ֖ישׁ חָ
CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is H...
CHAPTER 29 AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT "He that hideth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy."- Proverbs 28:13 "Happy is the man that feareth...
Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
The wrath of a king [is as] (h) messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. (h) That is, he finds many ways to execute his wrath....
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth trans...
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...
THE WRATH OF A KING [IS AS] MESSENGERS OF DEATH,.... Or, "angels of death", as the Targum. As the wrath of Ahasuerus was to Haman; when it is either discovered in the countenance of a king, or express...
The wrath of a king [is as] messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. Ver. 14. _The wrath of a king is as messengers of death._] In the plural number, the better to set forth the danger of...
_Righteous lips are the delight of kings_ All wise and good kings do, and all kings should, delight in employing such counsellors, judges, and officers, under them, as are just and faithful in their c...
V. 14. THE WRATH OF A KING IS AS MESSENGERS OF DEATH, if he becomes enraged, he has many means and instruments at his disposal to carry out his sentence of death; BUT A WISE MAN WILL PACIFY IT, he wil...
Proverbs 16:14 messengers H4397 death H4194 kings H4428 wrath H2534 wise H2450 man H376 appease H3722 (H8762)
THE RESPONSIBILITY AND AUTHORITY OF A KING (PROVERBS 16:12). It is no coincidence that this subsection with its fourfold mention of the king comes after a series of subsections in which YHWH and His j...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in it....
Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:10 The remaining sections of ch. Proverbs 16:1 illustrate the benefits of wisdom for the well-being of the heart (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 16:10. A DIVINE SENTENCE, literally _“divination,” i.e., “an oracle_” or “_a decision_.” “HIS MOUTH TRANSGRESSETH NOT.” Stuart and Delitzsch read, “_In judgment his mouth sh...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or a...
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin our study this evening. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1). Go...
2 Corinthians 5:20; 2 Kings 6:31; Acts 12:20; Daniel 3:13;...