26A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
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A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. …
And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.
And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, …
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26)See here, 1. What is the business of magistrates. They are to be a terror to evil-doers. They must scatter the wicked , who are linked in confederacies to assist and embolden one another in doing mischief; and there is no doing this but by bringing the wheel over them , that is, putting the laws in execution against them, crushing their power and quashing their projects. Severity must sometimes be…
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