Proverbs 25:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.

Proverbs 25:13 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 13:17
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Proverbs 25:25
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Proverbs 26:6
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
Philippians 2:25-30
Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 13)

See here, 1. What ought to be the care of a servant, the meanest that is sent on an errand and entrusted with any business, much more the greatest, the agent and ambassador of a prince; he ought to be faithful to him that sends him, and to see to it that he do not, by mistake or with design, falsify his trust, and that he be in nothing that lies in his power wanting to his master’s interest. Those…

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

(vv. 13)

13. Snow from mountains was used to cool drinks; so refreshing is a faithful messenger (Pr 13:17).