21My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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. …
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; …
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-22)Note, 1. Religion and loyalty must go together. As men, it is our duty to honour our Creator, to worship and reverence him, and to be always in his fear; as members of a community, incorporated for mutual benefit, it is our duty to be faithful and dutiful to the government God has set over us, Rom. 13:1 , 2 . Those that are truly religious will be loyal, in conscience towards God; the godly in the…
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