Proverbs 20:8
What meaning of the proverbs 20:8 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 20:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes."
What does Proverbs 20:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes."
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 con...
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....
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44....
_scattereth_ or _winnoweth_, R.V. marg., as the same Heb. word is rendered (as suggested by the parallelism) in Proverbs 20:26....
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,...
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...
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 ROYA...
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
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. V2 An angr...
A KING THAT SITTETH IN THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT... — See note on Proverbs 16:12....
מֶ֗לֶךְ יֹושֵׁ֥ב עַל ־כִּסֵּא ־דִ֑ין מְזָרֶ֖ה בְ עֵינָ֣יו כָּל ־רָֽע׃...
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...
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...
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 descri...
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....
_Look. It is the duty of kings to administer justice._...
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...
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 follow...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
Proverbs 20:8 king H4428 sits H3427 (H8802) throne H3678 judgment H1779 Scatters H2219 (H8764) evil H7451 eyes H5869 Proverbs 20:26, Proverbs 16:12, Proverbs 29:14; 1 Samuel 23:3-4;...
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...
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. Pr...
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 r...
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,...
1 Samuel 23:3; 1 Samuel 23:4; 2 Samuel 23:4; Isaiah 32:1; Proverbs 16:12; Proverbs 20:26; Proverbs 29:14; Psalms 101:6; Psalms 72:4; Ps
His eyes — With his very looks, or by his diligent inspection into affairs....