“ Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy. ”
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...
Mercy . lovingkindness, grace, or favour.
Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy. Mercy and truth preserve the king - These are the brightest jewels in the royal crown; and those kings who are most governed by...
Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy. Mercy (toward the miserable and needy) and truth (in fulfilling his word) preserve the king. Truth is not to be sacrifi...
1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
Mercy and truth preserve the king. — See above on Proverbs 3:3 . The love and faithfulness he shows to his subjects draw out the same qualities in them, and these are the safeguard of his throne....
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...
Mercy and truth preserve the king ,.... Which are two good qualifications in a prince; not ruling his subjects with rigour and cruelty, but with tenderness and clemency; easing them as much as he ca...
Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy. Ver. 28. Mercy and truth preserve the king. ] These are the best guard of his body, and supporters of his throne. Mildness a...
Mercy Clemency to offenders, and bounty to worthy indigent persons; and truth Faithfulness in keeping his word and promises inviolably; preserve the king Because they engage God to guard him, a...
28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy. Here we have, 1. The virtues of a good king. Those are mercy and truth, especially mercy, for that is men...
Mercy; clemency to offenders, and bounty to worthy and to indigent persons; and truth; faithfulness in keeping his word and promises inviolably; preserve the king, because they engage God to guard...
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...
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. 28. Mercy and truth preserve the king, they are the attributes or virtues which make his reign successful, and his throne is upholden by mercy, by gracious kindness and favor.
Isaiah 16:5 ; Proverbs 16:12 ; Proverbs 16:6 ; Proverbs 29:14 ; Psalms 101:1 ; Psalms 21:7 ; Psalms 26:1 ; Psalms 61:7