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Proverbs 15

Prov. 15:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
will destroy
nacach (Hebrew #5255)
to tear away
KJV usage: destroy, pluck, root.
Pronounce: naw-sakh'
Origin: a primitive root
the house
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
of the proud
ge'eh (Hebrew #1343)
lofty; figuratively, arrogant
KJV usage: proud.
Pronounce: gay-eh'
Origin: from 1342
: but he will establish
natsab (Hebrew #5324)
to station, in various applications (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: appointed, deputy, erect, establish, X Huzzah (by mistake for a proper name), lay, officer, pillar, present, rear up, set (over, up), settle, sharpen, establish, (make to) stand(-ing, still, up, upright), best state.
Pronounce: naw-tsab'
Origin: a prim root
the border
gbuwl (Hebrew #1366)
from 1379; properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extens. the territory inclosed
KJV usage: border, bound, coast, X great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.
Pronounce: gheb-ool'
Origin: or (shortened) gbul {gheb-ool'}
of the widow
'almanah (Hebrew #490)
a widow; also a desolate place
KJV usage: desolate house (palace), widow.
Pronounce: al-maw-naw'
Origin: fem of 488
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 12:7• 7Overthrow the wicked, and they are no more; but the house of the righteous shall stand. (Prov. 12:7)
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Prov. 14:11• 11The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; but the tent of the upright shall flourish. (Prov. 14:11)
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Job 40:11‑13• 11Cast abroad the ragings of thine anger, and look on every one that is proud, and abase him:
 12Look on every one that is proud, bring him low, and tread down the wicked in their place:
 13Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in secret. (Job 40:11‑13)
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Psa. 52:1,5• 1To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of *God abideth continually.
 5*God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. (Psa. 52:1,5)
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Psa. 138:6• 6For Jehovah is high; but he looketh upon the lowly, and the proud he knoweth afar off. (Psa. 138:6)
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Isa. 2:12• 12For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low; (Isa. 2:12)
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Dan. 5:20• 20But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him; (Dan. 5:20)
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1 Peter 5:5• 5Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace. (1 Peter 5:5)
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Deut. 10:17‑18• 17For Jehovah your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, the great *God, the mighty and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward;
 18who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and clothing. (Deut. 10:17‑18)
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Psa. 68:5‑6• 5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
 6God maketh the solitary into families; those that were bound he bringeth out into prosperity: but the rebellious dwell in a parched land. (Psa. 68:5‑6)
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Psa. 146:9• 9Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert. (Psa. 146:9)
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James 1:27• 27Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27)
• “Though the Lord be high, yet hath He respect unto the lowly: but the proud He knoweth afar off” (Psa. 138:6). His face is ever set against those who exalt themselves; but from of old He has been the support of the fatherless and the widow who confided in His love and care. (“Proverbs Fifteen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Jehovah plucketh up the house of the proud; but he establisheth the boundary of the widow.