Ecclesiastes 4:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

Ecclesiastes 4:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 15:6
And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

Commentary

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

(vv. 13-16)

Solomon was himself a king, and therefore may be allowed to speak more freely than another concerning the vanity of kingly state and dignity, which he shows here to be an uncertain thing; he had before said so (Prov. 27:24; The crown doth not endure to every generation), and his son found it so. Nothing is more slippery than the highest post of honour without wisdom and the people’s love. I. A kin…

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

(vv. 15)

15. “I considered all the living,” the present generation, in relation to (“with”) the “second youth” (the “legitimate successor” of the “old king,” as opposed to the “poor youth,” the one first spoken of, about to be raised from poverty to a throne), that is, Rehoboam. in his stead--the old king’s.