Proverbs 25:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. ”

Proverbs 25:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The earthly monarch might be, in some respects, the type of the heavenly, but here there is a marked contrast. The king presses further and further into all knowledge; God surrounds Himself as in “...
Proverbs 25:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

[It is] the glory of God to (c) conceal a thing: but the honour of (d) kings [is] to search out a matter. (c) God does not reveal the cause of his judgments to man. (d) Because the king rules by th...
Proverbs 25:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

First Division. In general character this division shows a resemblance to the Sayings of the Wise, containing a number of quatrains and synthetic couplets, and but few antithetic couplets. Prov...
Proverbs 25:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4. Compare Job 37:14-24 . Job 37:38-41. honour . glory, as in preceding line.
Proverbs 25:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. It is the glory of God to conceal a thing - This has been understood as referring to the revelation o...
Proverbs 25:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

To conceal a thing— That is, according to Grotius, His purposes and nature; whereas it is the honour of a king to examine into and make himself acquainted with the state, actions, and designs of...
Proverbs 25:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. (It is) the glory of God to conceal a thing - to conceal His profound counsels and decrees wherew...
Proverbs 25:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Courts. Quarrels 1-7. relate to kings and courts.
Proverbs 25:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing. — For the more we search into the mysteries of nature or revelation, the more do we discover depths of which we had no idea before. God has so ordered thi...
Proverbs 25:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 26 THE KING "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. The heaven for height and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearch...
Proverbs 25:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Words Fitly Spoken Proverbs 25:1-14 This collection of proverbs was made. 250years after the time of Solomon by the scribes of King Hezekiah. The glory of God is too great to be disclosed to th...
Proverbs 25:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

We now come to the second collection of the proverbs of Solomon. These, as the title specifically declares, constitute a posthumous collection gathered in the days of Hezekiah. Speaking generally, th...
Proverbs 25:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. God's glory is manifested to the poor sinner in secret, when he speaks to him by his Holy Spirit, and ma...
Proverbs 25:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing ,.... Secret things belong unto him, and they are kept so by him: many things which he does reveal, yet the "modus" or manner of them remains hidden; as w...
Proverbs 25:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 25:2 [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter. Ver. 2. It is the glory of God to conceal a thing. ] That what we conceive n...
Proverbs 25:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing It is agreeable to the nature of God, and highly conducing to his honour, as being a testimony of his infinite wisdom and knowledge, of his absolute power...
Proverbs 25:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

In This CHAPTER, forming the first section, necessarily affirms the basic principles of true unity, which is absolutely essential to recovery. For departure is the very breeding-ground of division, -...
Proverbs 25:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. 3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchabl...
Proverbs 25:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

It is the glory of God; it is agreeable to the nature and highly conducing to the honour of God, because it is a testimony of his infinite wisdom and knowledge, of his absolute power and sovereignt...
Proverbs 25:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

With this chapter begins the fourth main division of this book, consisting, as its introductory words inform us, of sayings and perhaps writings of Solomon, which were placed together in their presen...
Proverbs 25:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 25:1 . These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah copied out. Solomon wrote three thousand proverbs, and a thousand and five songs. 1 Kings 4:32 . The supplement to th...
Proverbs 25:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing. The glory of God in concealing If God were to conceal everything from our view, it would be impossible that any glory could result to Him from the sen...
Proverbs 25:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Verse 1-29:27 Part VI. SECOND GREAT COLLECTION OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS , gathered by "the men of Hezekiah," in which wisdom is set forth as the greatest blessing to the...
Proverbs 25:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

True Wisdom the Highest Good of Kings and Subjects.
Proverbs 25:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 3:9-28 ; 1 Kings 4:29-34 ; Deuteronomy 29:29 ; Ezra 4:15 ; Ezra 4:19 ; Ezra 5:17 ; Ezra 6:1 ; Job 11:7 ; Job 11:8 ; Job 29:16 ; Job 38:4-41 ; Job 39:1-30 ; Job 40:2 ; Job 42:3 ;...
Proverbs 25:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The glory — It is agreeable to the nature of God; it is a testimony of his infinite wisdom, and of his absolute power and sovereignty. To conceal — To keep his counsels, and the reasons of his acti...

Proverbs 25:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 25:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Proverbs 25:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 25:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 25:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 25:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 25:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 25:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 25:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 25:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 25:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 25:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 25:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 25:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 25:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 25:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 25:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 25:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 25:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 25:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 25:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 25:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 25:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 25:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 25:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 25:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes