Ecclesiastes 10:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

Ecclesiastes 10:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 19:10
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Esther 6:8
Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:
Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-11)

The scope of these verses is to keep subjects loyal and dutiful to the government. In Solomon’s reign the people were very rich, and lived in prosperity, which perhaps made them proud and petulant, and when the taxes were high, though they had enough to pay them with, it is probable that many conducted themselves insolently towards the government and threatened to rebel. To such Solomon here gives…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. servants upon horses--the worthless exalted to dignity (Jr 17:25); and vice versa (2Sa 15:30).