Ecclesiastes 8:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

Ecclesiastes 8:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 2:43
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
Titus 3:1
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
1 Chronicles 29:24
And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.
Romans 13:1-5
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-5)

Here is, I. An encomium of wisdom (Eccl. 8:1), that is, of true piety, guided in all its exercises by prudence and discretion. The wise man is the good man, that knows God and glorifies him, knows himself and does well for himself; his wisdom is a great happiness to him, for, 1. It advances him above his neighbours, and makes him more excellent than they: Who is as the wise man? Note, Heavenly wis…

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

(vv. 2)

2. the king’s--Jehovah, peculiarly the king of Israel in the theocracy; Ec 8:3, 4, prove it is not the earthly king who is meant. the oath of God--the covenant which God made with Abraham and renewed with David; Solomon remembered Psa 89:35, “I have sworn,” &c. (Psa 89:36), and the penalties if David’s children should forsake it (Psa 89:30-32); inflicted on Solomon himself; yet God not “utterly” f…