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La Biblia Reina-Valera
Proverbios 20:26
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- InternationalParallel Translations
El rey sabio avienta a los impíos, y hace pasar la rueda de trillar sobre ellos.
El rey sabio dispersa los imp�os, y sobre ellos hace rodar la rueda.
El rey sabio esparce los imp�os; y sobre ellos hace rodar la rueda.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
wise: Proverbs 20:8, 2 Samuel 4:9-12, Psalms 101:5-8
bringeth: 2 Samuel 12:31, Isaiah 28:27, Isaiah 28:28
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:6 - according 1 Kings 2:36 - Shimei Nehemiah 13:28 - I chased Psalms 72:4 - break Psalms 101:8 - early Proverbs 14:35 - king's Romans 13:4 - be
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A wise king scattereth the wicked,.... Or "fans [them] away" i; separates them from his good counsellors, courtiers, and subjects; scatters them from his presence and court, and breaks their counsels and confederacies one with another; he discovers, discountenances, and discourages them; :-;
and bringeth the wheel over them; alluding to the custom of the eastern nations turning a cart wheel over the grain in threshing it out, and agreeably to the metaphor in the preceding clause; see Isaiah 28:27. Though some think it refers to a sort of punishment inflicted on malefactors in those times and countries, by putting them under harrows drawn on wheels, as breaking upon the wheel has been since used; see
2 Samuel 12:31. The Arabic version understands it of exile. Jarchi interprets the wise king of the Lord, and the wicked of Pharaoh and his host, on whom he brought the wheel, or gave measure for measure, and punished in a way of retaliation; and to this sense it is by some k interpreted,
"as the wheel turns over, just in the same place, so as the wicked hath done, it shall be done to them.''
It may be applied to Christ, the wise King, who scatters all his and our enemies; whose fan is in his hand, and he wilt thoroughly purge his floor, Matthew 3:12.
i מזרה "ventilat", Junius & Tremellius, Schultens. k Vid. Schindler. Lexic. col. 109. & Weemse's Christ. Synagog. l. 1. c. 6. s. 8. p. 187.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The wheel - The threshing wheel Isaiah 28:27-28, which passes over the grain and separates the grain from the chaff. The proverb involves therefore the idea of the division of the good from the evil, no less than that of the punishment of the latter.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 20:26. Bringeth the wheel over them. — He threshes them in his anger, as the wheel does the grain on the threshing-floor. Every one knows that grain was separated from its husks, in Palestine, by the feet of the oxen trampling among the sheaves, or bringing a rough-shod wheel over them. Asiatic kings often threshed their people, to bring out their property; but this is not what is intended here.
