Proverbs 20:26

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A wise king separates out the wicked; he turns the threshing wheel over them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:8 : 8 A king sitting on the throne to judge separates out all evil with his eyes.
  • Isa 28:27-28 : 27 Certainly caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed. Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick, and cumin seed with a flail. 28 Grain is crushed, though one certainly does not thresh it forever. The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it.
  • 2 Sam 4:9-9 : 9 David replied to Recab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite,“As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered my life from all adversity, 10 when someone told me that Saul was dead– even though he thought he was bringing good news– I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the good news I gave to him! 11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?” 12 So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.
  • 2 Sam 12:31 : 31 He removed the people who were in it and made them labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, putting them to work at the brick kiln. This was his policy with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 101:5-8 : 5 I will destroy anyone who slanders his neighbor in secret. I will not tolerate anyone who has a haughty demeanor and an arrogant attitude. 6 I will favor the honest people of the land, and allow them to live with me. Those who walk in the way of integrity will attend me. 7 Deceitful people will not live in my palace. Liars will not be welcome in my presence. 8 Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the LORD.

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    8A king sitting on the throne to judge separates out all evil with his eyes.

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    5remove the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

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    17He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

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    8Scornful people inflame a city, but those who are wise turn away wrath.

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    4A king brings stability to a land by justice, but one who exacts tribute tears it down.

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    15Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

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    24He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.

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