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Friday, November 29th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Proverbs 25:5

Take away the wicked from before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;   King;   Rulers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Civic Righteousness;   Nation;   Nation, the;   Righteousness;   Social Duties;   The Topic Concordance - Government;   Throne;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Righteousness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Proverb, the Book of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Shimei;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;   Solomon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Proverbs, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Remove the wicked from the king's court, and his reign will be made secure by justice.
Update Bible Version
Take away the wicked [from] before the king, And his throne shall be established in righteousness.
New Century Version
Remove wicked people from the king's presence; then his government will be honest and last a long time.
New English Translation
remove the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
Webster's Bible Translation
Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
World English Bible
Take away the wicked from the king's presence, And his throne will be established in righteousness.
English Standard Version
take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Do thou awei vnpite fro the cheer of the kyng, and his trone schal be maad stidfast bi riytfulnesse.
English Revised Version
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Berean Standard Bible
Remove the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
Contemporary English Version
Evil people must be removed before anyone can rule with justice.
American Standard Version
Take away the wicked from before the king, And his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Bible in Basic English
Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.
Complete Jewish Bible
Remove the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will rest firmly on righteousness.
Darby Translation
take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Easy-to-Read Version
Take the evil advisors away from a king, and goodness will make his kingdom strong.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
King James Version (1611)
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shalbe established in righteousnes.
New Life Bible
Take the sinful away from the king, and his throne will stand on what is right and good.
New Revised Standard
take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Take away the wicked from the King, and his throne shall be stablished in righteousnes.
George Lamsa Translation
Let wicked men be driven from the presence of the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Good News Translation
Keep evil advisers away from the king and his government will be known for its justice.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Remove a lawless man from before the king, that his throne, may be established in righteousness.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Take away wickedness from the face of the king, and his throne shall be established with justice.
Revised Standard Version
take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take away the vngodly from the kyng: and his seate shalbe stablished with righteousnesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For all the words of God are tried in the fire, and he defends those that reverence him.
Christian Standard Bible®
Remove the wicked from the king’s presence,and his throne will be established in righteousness.
Hebrew Names Version
Take away the wicked from the king's presence, And his throne will be established in righteousness.
King James Version
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Lexham English Bible
Remove the wicked before a king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
Literal Translation
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne is established in righteousness.
Young's Literal Translation
Take away the wicked before a king, And established in righteousness is his throne.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take awaye vngodlinesse fro ye kynge, & his seate shal be stablished wt rightuousnes.
New American Standard Bible
Take away the wicked before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.
New King James Version
Take away the wicked from before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Take away the wicked before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.
Legacy Standard Bible
Take away the wicked before the king,And his throne will be established in righteousness.

Contextual Overview

4Take away the dross from the silver, And there comes out [the pure metal for] a vessel for the silversmith [to shape]. 5Take away the wicked from before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

away: Proverbs 20:8, 1 Kings 2:33, 1 Kings 2:46, Esther 7:10, Esther 8:11-17, Psalms 101:7, Psalms 101:8

his: Proverbs 16:12, Proverbs 20:28, Proverbs 29:14, Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 16:5

Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:40 - take away 1 Samuel 24:1 - it was told 2 Samuel 3:39 - I am 1 Kings 2:45 - the throne Proverbs 14:35 - king's Jeremiah 22:15 - and do

Cross-References

Genesis 24:36
"Now Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was in her old age, and he has given everything that he has to him.
Genesis 25:7
The days of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five years.
Genesis 25:9
So his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is east of Mamre,
Genesis 25:10
the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.
Genesis 25:12
Now these are the records of the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham;
Genesis 25:21
Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was unable to conceive children; and the LORD granted his prayer and Rebekah his wife conceived [twins].
Genesis 25:23
The LORD said to her, "[The founders of] two nations are in your womb; And the separation of two nations has begun in your body; The one people shall be stronger than the other; And the older shall serve the younger."
Psalms 68:18
You have ascended on high, You have led away captive Your captives; You have received gifts among men, Even from the rebellious also, that the LORD God may dwell there.
Matthew 11:27
"All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one fully knows and accurately understands the Son except the Father; and no one fully knows and accurately understands the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son [deliberately] wills to reveal Him.
Matthew 28:18
Jesus came up and said to them, "All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take away the wicked [from] before the king,.... Wicked ministers and counsellors; they are the "dross", worthless and useless; yea, hurtful and pernicious. The king is the "refiner", for whom the vessel is; the kingdom is the silver vessel refined; and which becomes much the better, when wicked men are removed from the court and cabinet council of kings; as well as the king is the happier, and his throne more firm and secure, as follows:

and his throne shall be established in righteousness; which he shall execute, wicked ministers being removed from him, who advised him to take unrighteous measures; and others being put in their room, who counsel him to do acts of justice; whereby his throne is secured, and he sits firm upon it, which before was tottering and shaking, and lie in great danger of being removed from it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The interpretation of the proverb of Proverbs 25:4. The king himself, like the Lord whom he represents, is to sit as “a refiner of silver” Malachi 3:3.


 
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