Proverbs 22:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁸Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

Proverbs 22:28 —

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Cross-References

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Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Job 24:2
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

Topics

Landmarks

Commentary

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

(vv. 28)

1. We are here taught not to invade another man’s right, though we can find ways of doing it ever so secretly and plausibly, clandestinely and by fraud, without any open force. Let not property in general be entrenched upon, by robbing men of their liberties and privileges, or of any just ways of maintaining them. Let not the property of particular persons be encroached upon. The land-marks, or me…

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

(vv. 28)

28. (Compare Pr 23:10). Do not entrench on others (De 19:14; 27:17).