“ A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. ”
The wheel - The threshing wheel Isaiah 28:27-28 , 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...
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the (h) wheel over them. (h) Which was a kind of punishment then used.
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 thou...
scattereth . winnoweth out. wicked . lawless. Hebrew. rasha'. the wheel: i.e. of the threshing instrument. Compare Isaiah 28:27 .
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. Bringeth the wheel over them - He threshes them in his anger, as the wheel does the grain on the threshing-floor. Every one knows...
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 cha...
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. A wise king scattereth the wicked - like chaff before the wind ( Proverbs 20:8 ). And bringeth the wheel over them - t...
1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
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...
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 glimps...
“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 e...
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 d...
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...
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 counse...
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 appe...
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 driv...
26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. See here, 1. What is the business of magistrates. They are to be a terror to evil-doers. They must scatter th...
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; drive...
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 GOVER...
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 19:1-2 . Cyrus, afte...
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...
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 infl...
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...
2 Samuel 12:31 ; 2 Samuel 4:9-12 ; Isaiah 28:27 ; Isaiah 28:28 ; Proverbs 20:8 ; Psalms 101:5-8
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.