Proverbs 6:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

Proverbs 6:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 11:5
The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 11:20
They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
Deuteronomy 25:16
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Proverbs 3:32
For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

Topics

Abomination Ambition Anger Arrogance Avenger of Blood Children Commandments Conceit

Commentary

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

(vv. 12-19)

Solomon here gives us, I. The characters of one that is mischievous to man and dangerous to be dealt with. If the slothful are to be condemned, that do nothing, much more those that do ill, and contrive to do all the ill they can. It is a naughty person that is here spoken of, Heb. A man of Belial; I think it should have been so translated, because it is a term often used in scripture, and this is…

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

(vv. 16)

16-19. six ... seven--a mode of speaking to arrest attention (Pr 30:15, 18; Job 5:19).