King James Version
Proverbs 20:8 in the King James Version says “A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.”
Proverbs 20:8 · KJV
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? goodness: or, bounty
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Divers weights , and divers measures , both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. Divers weights: Heb. A stone and a stone divers measures: Heb. an ephah and an ephah
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“that sitteth in”
H3427properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“of judgment”
H1779judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by implication also strife
“with his eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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