Proverbs 29:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

Proverbs 29:12 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 20:8
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Psalms 52:2-4
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. …
1 Samuel 22:8-23
That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? …
2 Kings 10:6-7
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up. …
2 Samuel 3:7-11
And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine? …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 12)

Note, 1. It is a great sin in any, especially in rulers, to hearken to lies; for thereby they not only give a wrong judgment themselves of persons and things, according to the lies they give credit to, but they encourage others to give wrong informations. Lies will be told to those that will hearken to them; but the receiver, in this case, is as bad as the thief. 2. Those that do so will have all…

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

(vv. 12)

12. His servants imitate him.