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Proverbs 20:8

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, that kings were originally constituted for this very purpose. This also was Cicero's opinion, and was long before asserted by Hesiod. See Grotius and Calmet.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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....

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _scattereth_ or _winnoweth_, R.V. marg., as the same Heb. word is rendered (as suggested by the parallelism) in Proverbs 20:26....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. A KING THAT SITTETH IN THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT (ACTIVELY EXERCISING JUDGMENT, AND GIVING HIMSELF UP TO HIS ROYAL...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SCATTERETH AWAY] RM 'winnoweth' (1 Kings 3:28)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    A KING THAT SITTETH IN THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT... — See note on Proverbs 16:12....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מֶ֗לֶךְ יֹושֵׁ֥ב עַל ־כִּסֵּא ־דִ֑ין מְזָרֶ֖ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Look. It is the duty of kings to administer justice._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 20:8 king H4428 sits H3427 (H8802) throne H3678 judgment H1779 Scatters H2219 (H8764) evil H7451 eyes...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 23:3; 1 Samuel 23:4; 2 Samuel 23:4; Isaiah 32:1; Proverbs 16

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    His eyes — With his very looks, or by his diligent inspection into affairs....

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