A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
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Gill's Exposition
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king,.... Or "divination" (f), as the word signifies; or what is like to divination, as Aben Ezra and Gersom interpret it (g). What be says is as an oracle, and…
Barnes' Notes
A divine sentence - See the margin, i. e., “soothsaying” in its darker aspect as contrasted with prophecy. The true oracle is to be sought, not from soothsayers and diviners, but “at the lips of the…
Matthew Henry
We wish this were always true as a proposition, and we ought to make it our prayer for kings, and all in authority, that a divine sentence may be in their lips, both in giving orders, that they may do…
Cambridge Bible
A divine sentence Lit. divination, A.V. and R.V. marg. The word is generally used in a bad sense, "soothsaying." See Deu 18:10, where it is positively forbidden, and 1Sa 15:23, where it is called a…
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