28In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
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Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. …
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28)Here are two maxims in politics, which carry their own evidence with them:—1. That it is much for the honour of a king to have a populous kingdom; it is a sign that he rules well, since strangers are hereby invited to come and settle under his protection and his own subjects live comfortably; it is a sign that he and his kingdom are under the blessing of God, the effect of which is being fruitful…
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