Proverbs 16:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

Proverbs 16:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 72:6
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Job 29:23-24
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. …
Acts 2:28
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
Hosea 6:3
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Psalms 4:6
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 14-15)

These two verses show the power of kings, which is every where great, but was especially so in those eastern countries, where they were absolute and arbitrary. Whom they would they slew and whom they would they kept alive. Their will was a law. We have reason to bless God for the happy constitution of the government we live under, which maintains the prerogative of the prince without any injury to…

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

(vv. 15)

15. light of ... countenance--favor (Psa 4:6). life--preserves it, or gives blessings which make it valuable. the latter rain--fell just before harvest and matured the crop; hence specially valuable (De 11:14).