Proverbs 20:26

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A wise king winnows out the wicked; he drives the threshing wheel over them.

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  • Prov 20:8 : 8 A king who sits on the throne of judgment disperses all evil with his eyes.
  • Isa 28:27-28 : 27 For black cumin is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin. Instead, black cumin is beaten with a stick, and cumin with a rod. 28 Grain must be ground to make bread, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of a cart roll over it and its horses trample it, they do not crush it entirely.
  • 2 Sam 4:9-9 : 9 David answered Rechab and Baanah, his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, "As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from every trouble... 10 When someone told me, 'Saul is dead,' thinking he was bringing me good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the reward I gave him for his news. 11 How much more, then, when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed! Should I not now demand his blood from your hand and remove you from the earth? 12 So David commanded his young men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in Abner's tomb in Hebron.
  • 2 Sam 12:31 : 31 He brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws, iron picks, and axes, and made them work at brickmaking. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 101:5-8 : 5 Whoever secretly slanders their neighbor, I will silence. Whoever has proud eyes and an arrogant heart, I cannot endure. 6 My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. The one who walks in integrity, they will serve me. 7 No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house; no one who speaks lies will stand in my presence. 8 Each morning, I will silence all the wicked of the land, cutting off every evildoer from the city of the Lord.

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