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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 20:26

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 is separated from it, by drawing the wheel over it. See Isaiah 28:27 and Fuller's Miscellanies, book 6: chap. 12.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SCATTERETH. winnoweth out. WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha'._ THE WHEEL: i.e. of the threshing instrument. Compare Isaiah 28:27....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מְזָרֶ֣ה רְ֭שָׁעִים מֶ֣לֶךְ חָכָ֑ם וַ יָּ֖שֶׁב...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the (h) wheel over them. (h) Which was a kind of punishment then used....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Wheel. Or triumphal arch, fornicem. (Ven. Bede; Jansenius) --- He will make his enemies lie prostrate under his chariot-wheels, 2 Kings xii. 31._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 20:26 wise H2450 king H4428 out H2219 (H8764) wicked H7563 brings H7725 (H8686) wheel H212 over them

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 12:31; 2 Samuel 4:9; Isaiah 28:27; Isaiah 28:28; Proverb

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

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