“ The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. ”
While Proverbs 16:13 depicts the king as he ought to be, this verse reminds us of the terrible rapidity with which, in the despotic monarchies of the East, punishment, even death, follows royal d...
The wrath of a king [is as] (h) messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. (h) That is, he finds many ways to execute his wrath.
Proverbs 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms ( Proverbs 16:10-15 ) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular...
messengers, &c. Illustrations: Benaiah ( 1 Kings 2:25 ); Haman ( Esther 7:8-10 ). pacify it . get it covered.
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. The wrath of a king is as messengers of death. The plural expresses manifold forms of death which are at the king...
1-9. God's control of human life.
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...
Verse Proverbs 16:1 . A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr....
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth tran...
The wrath of a king [is as] messengers of death ,.... Or, "angels of death", as the Targum. As the wrath of Ahasuerus was to Haman; when it is either discovered in the countenance of a king, or expr...
The wrath of a king [is as] messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. Ver. 14. The wrath of a king is as messengers of death. ] In the plural number, the better to set forth the danger o...
Righteous lips are the delight of kings All wise and good kings do, and all kings should, delight in employing such counsellors, judges, and officers, under them, as are just and faithful in their...
14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. 15 In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain....
Is as messengers of death; is as terrible as if many messengers were sent to denounce the sentence of death, and to execute it. Will pacify it; will use all prudent and lawful means to pacify it....
The Responsibility And Authority Of A King ( Proverbs 16:12-15 ). It is no coincidence that this subsection with its fourfold mention of the king comes after a series of subsections in which YHWH...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 16:10 . A Divine sentence , literally “divination,” i.e., “an oracle ” or “ a decision .” “His mouth transgresseth not.” Stuart and Delitzsch read, “ In judgment his m...
Proverbs 16:1 . The preparations of the heart in man. As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt dispose...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 16:1-20 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. Proverbs 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without...
v. 14. The wrath of a king is as messengers of death, if he becomes enraged, he has many means and instruments at his disposal to carry out his sentence of death; but a wise man will pacify it, h...
2 Corinthians 5:20 ; 2 Kings 6:31-33 ; Acts 12:20 ; Daniel 3:13-25 ; Ecclesiastes 10:4 ; Luke 12:4 ; Luke 12:5 ; Mark 6:27 ; Proverbs 17:11 ; Proverbs 19:12 ; Proverbs 20:2