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Amsal 17:26

Mengenakan denda orang benar adalah salah, memukul orang muliapun tidak patut.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Justice;   Rulers;   The Topic Concordance - Punishment;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Punishments;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Flogging;   Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Equity;   Forfeit;   Noble;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Mengenakan denda orang benar adalah salah, memukul orang muliapun tidak patut.

Contextual Overview

26 Certaynely to condempne the iust is not good: nor to strike the gouernours whiche iudge rightly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to punish: Proverbs 17:15, Proverbs 18:5, Genesis 18:25

to strike: 2 Samuel 3:23-25, 2 Samuel 3:39, 2 Samuel 16:7, 2 Samuel 16:8, 2 Samuel 19:7, Job 34:18, Job 34:19, Micah 5:1, John 18:22

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 5:9 - It is not Jeremiah 37:18 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 12:4
And so Abram departed, euen as the Lorde had spoken vnto hym, and Lot went with him: and Abram was seuentie and fiue yeres old when he departed out of Haran.
Genesis 17:3
And Abram fell on his face, & God talked with hym, saying:
Genesis 17:4
It is I, behold my couenaut [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
Psalms 119:60
I made haste and I made no delay: for to kepe thy commaundementes.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also to punish the just [is] not good,.... It is evil, and an abomination to the Lord, Proverbs 17:15. Evildoers indeed should be punished; but to punish the righteous also, as well as them, is far from being commendable;

[nor] to strike princes for equity: to strike princes, judges, civil magistrates, for doing the duty of their place and office, for doing that which is just and equitable among men, is very criminal, who ought to be encouraged and supported therein. Or it may be rendered, nor "that princes should strike for [that which is] right" b or cause men to be stricken, scourged, and whipped for doing well. The Targum is,

"nor to smite the righteous, who say right things;''

and so the Syriac version renders it, "righteous ones"; and the word signifies ingenuous liberal persons, good men, such as princes are or ought to be; and who should neither be stricken in the due discharge of their office, nor strike others that do well.

b להכות נדיבים על יושר "principes percuiere ob rectitudinem", Mercerus; "propter recta facta", Piscator, Gataker.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nor to strike ... - Better, and to strike the noble (in character rather than in rank) is against right. Compare John 18:28.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 17:26. Nor to strike princes for equity. — To fall out with the ruler of the people, and to take off his head under pretence of his not being a just or equitable governor, is unjust. To kill a king on the ground of justice is a most dreadful omen to any land. Where was it ever done, that it promoted the public prosperity? No experiment of this kind has ever yet succeeded, howsoever worthless the king might be.


 
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