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Ecclesiastes 4

Eccl. 4:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For out of prison
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
'acar (Hebrew #631)
to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle
KJV usage: bind, fast, gird, harness, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, prison(-er), put in bonds, set in array, tie.
Pronounce: aw-sar'
Origin: a primitive root
he cometh
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
to reign
malak (Hebrew #4427)
to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel
KJV usage: consult, X indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reign(-ing), rule, X surely.
Pronounce: maw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root
; whereas also he that is born
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
in his kingdom
malkuwth (Hebrew #4438)
or (in plural) malkuyah {mal-koo-yah'}; from 4427; a rule; concretely, a dominion
KJV usage: empire, kingdom, realm, reign, royal.
Pronounce: mal-kooth'
Origin: or malkuth {mal-kooth'}
becometh poor
ruwsh (Hebrew #7326)
to be destitute
KJV usage: lack, needy, (make self) poor (man).
Pronounce: roosh
Origin: a primitive root
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Ministry on This Verse

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For out.This is probably an allusion to some fact with which we are unacquainted.
History furnishes many instances of mean persons raised to sovereign authority, and of kings being reduced to the meanest offices, and to a morsel.
Agrippa mounted the throne of Israel after having been long in prison; and similar instances are not wanting in modern times.
Gen. 41:14,33‑44• 14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph; and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. And he shaved himself, and changed his clothes, and came in to Pharaoh.
 33And now let Pharaoh look himself out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
 34Let Pharaoh do this: let him appoint overseers over the land, and take the fifth part of the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty,
 35and let them gather all the food of these coming good years, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, for food in the cities, and keep it.
 36And let the food be as store for the land for the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine.
 37And the word was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his bondmen.
 38And Pharaoh said to his bondmen, Shall we find one as this, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
 39And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has made all this known to thee, there is none so discreet and wise as thou.
 40Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy commandment shall all my people regulate themselves; only concerning the throne will I be greater than thou.
 41And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
 42And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in clothes of byssus, and put a gold chain on his neck.
 43And he caused him to ride in the second chariot that he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee! and he set him over all the land of Egypt.
 44And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt. (Gen. 41:14,33‑44)
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Job 5:11• 11Setting up on high those that are low; and mourners are exalted to prosperity. (Job 5:11)
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Psa. 113:7‑8• 7He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy,
 8To set him among nobles, among the nobles of his people. (Psa. 113:7‑8)
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1 Kings 14:26‑27• 26And he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all; and he took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made.
 27And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the couriers who kept the entrance of the king's house. (1 Kings 14:26‑27)
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2 Kings 23:31‑34• 31Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
 32And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.
 33And Pharaoh-Nechoh had him bound at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and laid a tribute upon the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
 34And Pharaoh-Nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king instead of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And he took Jehoahaz; and he came to Egypt, and died there. (2 Kings 23:31‑34)
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2 Kings 24:1‑2,6,12• 1In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim was his servant three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.
 2And Jehovah sent against him the bands of the Chaldeans, and the bands of the Syrians, and the bands of the Moabites, and the bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spoke through his servants the prophets.
 6And Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
 12And Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his chamberlains; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. (2 Kings 24:1‑2,6,12)
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2 Kings 25:7,27‑30• 7and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
 27And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
 28and he spoke kindly to him, and set his seat above the seat of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
 29And he changed his prison garments; and he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;
 30and his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life. (2 Kings 25:7,27‑30)
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Lam. 4:20• 20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations. (Lam. 4:20)
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Dan. 4:31• 31While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from the heavens: King Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from thee; (Dan. 4:31)
• There is no lot abiding. The king on his throne, “old and foolish,” changes places with the youth who may even step from the humiliation of prison and chains to the highest dignity: then “better is the poor and wise youth than the old and foolish king.” (“Ecclesiastes 4” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For out of the prison-house he came forth to reign, although he was born poor in his kingdom.