Proverbs 29:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

Proverbs 29:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 29:14
The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
Daniel 11:20
Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.
Micah 7:3
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Proverbs 20:8
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 4)

Here is, 1. The happiness of a people under a good government. The care and business of a prince should be to establish the land, to maintain its fundamental laws, to settle the minds of his subjects and make them easy, to secure their liberties and properties from hostilities and for posterity, and to set in order the things that are wanting; this he must do by judgment, by wise counsels, and by…

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

(vv. 4)

4. by judgment--that is, righteous decisions, opposed to those procured by gifts (compare Pr 28:21), by which good government is perverted. land--for nation.