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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...
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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....
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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...
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EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44....
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_scattereth_ or _winnoweth_, R.V. marg., as the same Heb. word is
rendered (as suggested by the parallelism) in Proverbs 20:26....
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man
sneer, quarrel and reel about....
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SCATTERETH AWAY] RM 'winnoweth' (1 Kings 3:28)....
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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...
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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....
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A KING THAT SITTETH IN THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT... — See note on
Proverbs 16:12....
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מֶ֗לֶךְ יֹושֵׁ֥ב עַל ־כִּסֵּא ־דִ֑ין
מְזָרֶ֖ה...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_Look. It is the duty of kings to administer justice._...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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Proverbs 20:8 king H4428 sits H3427 (H8802) throne H3678 judgment
H1779 Scatters H2219 (H8764) evil H7451 eyes...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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1 Samuel 23:3; 1 Samuel 23:4; 2 Samuel 23:4; Isaiah 32:1; Proverbs 16
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His eyes — With his very looks, or by his diligent inspection into
affairs....