Verse Proverbs 20:26. Bringeth the wheel over them.] He threshes them in his anger, as the wheel does the grain on the threshing-floor. Every one knows that grain was separated from its husks, in Palestine, by the feet of the oxen trampling among the sheaves, or bringing a rough-shod wheel over them. Asiatic kings often threshed their people, to bring out their property; but this is not what is intended here.
THE WHEEL - The threshing wheel Isaiah 28:27, which passes over the grain and separates the grain from the chaff. The proverb involves therefore the idea of the division of the good from the evil, no...
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....
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...
SCATTERETH. winnoweth out. WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha'._ THE WHEEL: i.e. of the threshing instrument. Compare Isaiah 28:27....
_scattereth_ RATHER, WINNOWETH. λικμήτωρ ἀσεβῶν βασιλεὺς σοφὸς, LXX. _the wheel_ sc. of his threshing wain. Comp. Isaiah 28:27. He executes righteous judgement upon them, Psalms 62:4; Romans 13:4....
A WISE KING SCATTERETH THE WICKED— The plain meaning seems to be, that a good king separates the bad from the good by a due execution of his laws; which is like the winnowing the corn after the chaff...
TEXT Proverbs 20:21-30 21. An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed. 22. Say not thou, I will recompense evil: Wait for Jehovah, and he wil...
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. A WISE KING SCATTERETH THE WICKED - like chaff before the wind (). AND BRINGETH THE WHEEL OVER THEM - the wheel of the threshi...
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
THE WHEEL of the threshing-cart, crushing in its weight (Amos 1:3)....
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....
A farmer drives a wheel over the wheat, to separate the grain from the straw. Then he scatters the grain, so that the wind blows away the straw. A king attacks evil men. The king must protect his cou...
A WISE KING SCATTERETH THE WICKED. — Rather, _winnows_ them. AND BRINGETH THE WHEEL OVER THEM. — Comp. Isaiah 28:27. A sort of sledge or cart was driven over the stalks of corn spread upon the threshi...
מְזָרֶ֣ה רְ֭שָׁעִים מֶ֣לֶךְ חָכָ֑ם וַ יָּ֖שֶׁב...
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...
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...
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...
“THE GLORY OF YOUNG MEN” Proverbs 20:16-30 What a wonderful thought is given in Proverbs 20:27! We stand like a row of unlighted candles until God's Spirit kindles us. Has the Divine Nature ever bent...
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...
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the (h) wheel over them. (h) Which was a kind of punishment then used....
_Wheel. Or triumphal arch, fornicem. (Ven. Bede; Jansenius) --- He will make his enemies lie prostrate under his chariot-wheels, 2 Kings xii. 31._...
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry. A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. The spirit of man is the candle of the L...
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...
A WISE KING SCATTERETH THE WICKED,.... Or "fans [them] away" i; separates them from his good counsellors, courtiers, and subjects; scatters them from his presence and court, and breaks their counsels...
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. Ver. 26. _A wise king scattereth the wicked._] Drains the country of them by his just severity, yet with due discretion, as appear...
_A wise king_ Who seriously minds his duty, and his true interest; _scattereth the wicked_ Breaks their companies and confederacies, and forces them to flee several ways for their own safety; or drive...
V. 26. A WISE KING SCATTERETH THE WICKED, sifting and winnowing them, as the chaff is separated from the grain, AND BRINGETH THE WHEEL OVER THEM, as the wheel of the threshing-cart separated the wheat...
A WISE KING, who seriously minds his duty and his true interest, SCATTERETH THE WICKED; breaks their companies and confederacies, and forceth them to flee several ways for their own safety; driveth th...
Proverbs 20:26 wise H2450 king H4428 out H2219 (H8764) wicked H7563 brings H7725 (H8686) wheel H212 over them
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...
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...
_A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them _ PERSECUTION AND RIGHTEOUS PENALTY A passage of this kind may easily be perverted by being used for the purpose of supporting a...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 20:26 DRIVES THE WHEEL OVER THEM refers to a heavy cart being drawn over the grain to separate the wheat from the chaff. For the health of his kingdom, a WISE KING must root...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 20:26. THE WHEEL, _i.e._, the wheel of the threshing, instrument which blows away the chaff. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:26; Proverbs 20:28_ PILLARS OF GOVERNMEN
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...
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,...
2 Samuel 12:31; 2 Samuel 4:9; Isaiah 28:27; Isaiah 28:28; Proverb
The wheel — As the cart — wheel was anciently turned over the sheaves to beat the corn out of them. He punishes them as their offences deserve....