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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Proverbs 25:5

Remove the wicked from the king's presence, 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

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.
English Standard Version
take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
New American Standard Bible
Take away the wicked before the king, And his throne will 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.
Amplified Bible
Take away the wicked from before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.
World English Bible
Take away the wicked from the king's presence, 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.
Legacy Standard Bible
Take away the wicked before the king,And his throne will be established in righteousness.
Contemporary English Version
Evil people must be removed before anyone can rule with justice.
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.
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.
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take awaye vngodlinesse fro ye kynge, & his seate shal be stablished wt rightuousnes.
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.
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.
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.
English Revised Version
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall 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.
Update Bible Version
Take away the wicked [from] before the king, And his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Webster's Bible Translation
Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
New English Translation
remove the wicked from 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 Living Translation
Remove the wicked from the king's court, and his reign will be made secure by justice.
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.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
Take away the wicked before a king, And established in righteousness is his throne.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Take away the wicked before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.

Contextual Overview

4Remove the dross from the silver, and a vessel for a silversmith will come forth. 5Remove the wicked from the king's presence, 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
My master's wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.
Genesis 25:7
Abraham lived a total of 175 years.
Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
Genesis 25:10
This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
Genesis 25:12
This is the account of Abraham's son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maidservant, bore to Abraham.
Genesis 25:21
Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
Genesis 25:23
and He declared to her: "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."
Psalms 68:18
You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
Matthew 11:27
All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
Matthew 28:18
Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority 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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