Matthew 18:28-30
People raise a man of the people, poor like themselves, to power. They find him the worst oppressor of all, plundering them to their last morsels,...
Second Division, Proverbs 28 f. In general character this division resembles Section II., consisting chiefly of antithetic couplets. Proverbs 2...
poor . needy. Same root as in verses: Proverbs 28:6 ; Proverbs 28:19 ; Proverbs 28:27 . Not the same word as in verses: Proverbs 28:3 ; Proverb...
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. A poor man that oppresseth the poor - Our Lord illustrates this...
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. A poor man ( geber ( H1397 ): a tyrant, a man of migh...
Observations relating chiefly to Social Life 2. Cp. the many changes of rulers during the unsatisfactory period described in 2K15.
The addition of a single Hebrew letter gives 'wicked' instead of poor.
A poor man that oppresseth the poor. — If the recollection of his own former troubles has not softened his heart towards his poor neighbours, he wi...
CHAPTER 29 AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT "He that hideth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain merc...
Verse Proverbs 28:2 . "The transgression of a land" must be understood as the opposite of the "state shall be prolonged." Then the proverb means tha...
A poor man that oppresseth the poor ,.... Either one that is poor at the time he oppresses another like himself, either by secret fraud or open inju...
A poor man that oppresseth the poor [is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. Ver. 3. A poor man that oppresseth the poor, &c. ] Such a...
A poor man that oppresseth the poor Who, being advanced into a place of authority, abuses it, to oppress those that are poor, and unable to resist...
IF we HAVE SEEN in chapter 27 the blessing of God and refuge in the sanctuary, chapter 28, a fourth section. brings our feet abruptly back to the wil...
3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. See here, 1. How hard-hearted poor people fre...
When a poor man being advanced into a place of authority, abuseth it to oppress those that are poor and unable to resist him, he is like a violent ra...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 28:3 THE MOST INEXCUSABLE OPPRESSION I. Oppression from an unexpected quarter . Although poverty sometimes has a v...
Proverbs 28:2 . By a man of understanding the state shall be prolonged. Who can value the Samuels in Israel; the Gracchuses in Rome; the Walpoles,...
EXPOSITION This chapter is still part of the Hezekiah collection, and not a new series by another author. It may be regarded as describing the v...
The Consequences of Impiety
A poor man that oppresseth the poor, an upstart who has enriched himself at the expense of his subjects, is like a sweeping rain, a heavy, driving...
Divine Contrasts Proverbs 28:1-27 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have another one of Solomon's messages which God gave to him. We will bring out severa...
It like — Is like a violent rain or flood, which washes away the very seeds in the earth. He is the worst of all oppressors.
3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.