Proverbs 29:4
By justice a king brings stability to the land, but a man who exacts tribute demolishes it.
Note Or who taxes heavily or who takes bribes
The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.
Note he…: Heb. a man of oblations
The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.
The king by justice establisheth the land; But he that exacteth gifts overthroweth it.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- king
- Proverbs 29:14; Proverbs 16:12; Proverbs 20:8; 1 Samuel 13:13; 2 Samuel 8:15; 1 Kings 2:12; Psalm 89:14; Psalm 99:4; Isaiah 9:7; Isaiah 49:8
- he that receiveth gifts
- Heb. a man of oblations.
- 2 Kings 15:18–20; Jeremiah 22:13–17; Daniel 11:20; Micah 7:3