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Proverbs 25:5

Take away the wicked from the King, and his throne shall be stablished in righteousnes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;   King;   Rulers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Civic Righteousness;   Nation;   Nation, the;   Righteousness;   Social Duties;   The Topic Concordance - Government;   Throne;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Righteousness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Proverb, the Book of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Shimei;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;   Solomon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Proverbs, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Remove the wicked from the king’s presence,and his throne will be established in righteousness.
Hebrew Names Version
Take away the wicked from the king's presence, And his throne will be established in righteousness.
King James Version
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
English Standard Version
take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
New American Standard Bible
Take away the wicked before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.
New Century Version
Remove wicked people from the king's presence; then his government will be honest and last a long time.
Amplified Bible
Take away the wicked from before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.
World English Bible
Take away the wicked from the king's presence, And his throne will be established in righteousness.
Legacy Standard Bible
Take away the wicked before the king,And his throne will be established in righteousness.
Berean Standard Bible
Remove the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
Contemporary English Version
Evil people must be removed before anyone can rule with justice.
Complete Jewish Bible
Remove the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will rest firmly on righteousness.
Darby Translation
take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Easy-to-Read Version
Take the evil advisors away from a king, and goodness will make his kingdom strong.
George Lamsa Translation
Let wicked men be driven from the presence of the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Good News Translation
Keep evil advisers away from the king and his government will be known for its justice.
Lexham English Bible
Remove the wicked before a king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
Literal Translation
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne is established in righteousness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take awaye vngodlinesse fro ye kynge, & his seate shal be stablished wt rightuousnes.
American Standard Version
Take away the wicked from before the king, And his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Bible in Basic English
Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
King James Version (1611)
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shalbe established in righteousnes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take away the vngodly from the kyng: and his seate shalbe stablished with righteousnesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For all the words of God are tried in the fire, and he defends those that reverence him.
English Revised Version
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Do thou awei vnpite fro the cheer of the kyng, and his trone schal be maad stidfast bi riytfulnesse.
Update Bible Version
Take away the wicked [from] before the king, And his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Webster's Bible Translation
Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
New English Translation
remove the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
New King James Version
Take away the wicked from before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.
New Living Translation
Remove the wicked from the king's court, and his reign will be made secure by justice.
New Life Bible
Take the sinful away from the king, and his throne will stand on what is right and good.
New Revised Standard
take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Remove a lawless man from before the king, that his throne, may be established in righteousness.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Take away wickedness from the face of the king, and his throne shall be established with justice.
Revised Standard Version
take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
Young's Literal Translation
Take away the wicked before a king, And established in righteousness is his throne.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Take away the wicked before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.

Contextual Overview

4 Take the drosse from the siluer, and there shall proceede a vessell for the finer. 5 Take away the wicked from the King, and his throne shall be stablished in righteousnes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

away: Proverbs 20:8, 1 Kings 2:33, 1 Kings 2:46, Esther 7:10, Esther 8:11-17, Psalms 101:7, Psalms 101:8

his: Proverbs 16:12, Proverbs 20:28, Proverbs 29:14, Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 16:5

Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:40 - take away 1 Samuel 24:1 - it was told 2 Samuel 3:39 - I am 1 Kings 2:45 - the throne Proverbs 14:35 - king's Jeremiah 22:15 - and do

Cross-References

Genesis 24:36
And Sarah my masters wife hath borne a sonne to my master, when she was olde, and vnto him hath he giuen all that he hath.
Genesis 25:7
And this is the age of Abrahams life, which he liued, an hundreth seuentie & fiue yeere.
Genesis 25:9
And his sonnes, Izhak and Ishmael buryed him in the caue of Machpelah, in the fielde of Ephron sonne of Zohar the Hittite, before Mamre.
Genesis 25:10
Which fielde Abraham bought of the Hittites, where Abraham was buryed with Sarah his wife.
Genesis 25:12
Nowe these are the generations of Ishmael Abrahams sonne, whome Hagar the Egyptian Sarahs handmayde bare vnto Abraham.
Genesis 25:21
And Izhak prayed vuto the Lorde for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiued,
Genesis 25:23
And the Lord sayd to her, Two nations are in thy wombe, and two maner of people shalbe diuided out of thy bowels, and the one people shall be mightier then the other, and the elder shall serue the yonger.
Psalms 68:18
Thou art gone vp on high: thou hast led captiuitie captiue, and receiued giftes for men: yea, euen the rebellious hast thou led, that the Lorde God might dwell there.
Matthew 11:27
All things are giuen vnto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Sonne, but ye Father: neither knoweth any man ye Father, but the Sonne, and he to whom ye Sonne will reueile him.
Matthew 28:18
And Iesus came, and spake vnto them, saying, All power is giuen vnto me, in heauen, and in earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take away the wicked [from] before the king,.... Wicked ministers and counsellors; they are the "dross", worthless and useless; yea, hurtful and pernicious. The king is the "refiner", for whom the vessel is; the kingdom is the silver vessel refined; and which becomes much the better, when wicked men are removed from the court and cabinet council of kings; as well as the king is the happier, and his throne more firm and secure, as follows:

and his throne shall be established in righteousness; which he shall execute, wicked ministers being removed from him, who advised him to take unrighteous measures; and others being put in their room, who counsel him to do acts of justice; whereby his throne is secured, and he sits firm upon it, which before was tottering and shaking, and lie in great danger of being removed from it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The interpretation of the proverb of Proverbs 25:4. The king himself, like the Lord whom he represents, is to sit as “a refiner of silver” Malachi 3:3.


 
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