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Prov. 28:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by γa man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.

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or, men of understanding and wisdom shall they likewise be.

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the transgression.

1 Kings 15:25,28• ²⁵{i}And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.{/i}
²⁸Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead. (1 Kings 15:25,28)

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1 Kings 16:8‑29• ⁸{i}In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years.{/i}
⁹{i}And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him; and he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was the steward of his house in Tirzah;{/i}
¹⁰{i}and Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned in his stead.{/i}
¹¹{i}And it came to pass when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not a male, neither of his kinsmen nor of his friends.{/i}
¹²{i}And Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spoke against Baasha through Jehu the prophet,{/i}
¹³{i}for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and wherewith they made Israel to sin, provoking Jehovah the God of Israel to anger with their vanities.{/i}
¹⁴{i}And the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?{/i}
¹⁵{i}In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.{/i}
¹⁶{i}And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, and has also smitten the king; and all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.{/i}
¹⁷{i}And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.{/i}
¹⁸{i}And it came to pass when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the citadel of the king's house, and burned the king's house over him with fire;{/i}
¹⁹{i}and he died for his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, making Israel to sin.{/i}
²⁰{i}And the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his conspiracy which he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?{/i}
²¹{i}Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.{/i}
²²{i}But the people that followed Omri overcame the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath; and Tibni died, and Omri reigned.{/i}
²³{i}In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel, —twelve years; he reigned six years in Tirzah.{/i}
²⁴{i}And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and built on the hill, and called the name of the city that he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.{/i}
²⁵{i}And Omri wrought evil in the sight of Jehovah, and did worse than all that were before him.{/i}
²⁶{i}And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins wherewith he made Israel to sin, provoking Jehovah the God of Israel to anger with their vanities.{/i}
²⁷{i}And the rest of the acts of Omri, what he did, and his might which he showed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?{/i}
²⁸{i}And Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.{/i}
²⁹{i}And Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah; and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.{/i} (1 Kings 16:8‑29)

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2 Kings 15:8‑31• ⁸{i}In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria, six months.{/i}
⁹{i}And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, according as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.{/i}
¹⁰{i}And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.{/i}
¹¹{i}And the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.{/i}
¹²{i}This was the word of Jehovah which he spoke to Jehu saying, Thy sons shall sit upon the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.{/i}
¹³{i}Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.{/i}
¹⁴{i}And Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.{/i}
¹⁵{i}And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.{/i}
¹⁶{i}Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and its territory from Tirzah, because they did not open to him; and he smote it: all the women in it that were with child he ripped up.{/i}
¹⁷In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.
¹⁸And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
¹⁹And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land; {i}and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to establish the kingdom in his hand{/i}.
²⁰{i}And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, of all those who were wealthy, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. And the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.{/i}
²¹{i}And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?{/i}
²²{i}And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.{/i}
²³{i}In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, for two years.{/i}
²⁴{i}And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.{/i}
²⁵{i}And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the fortress of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites; and he slew him, and reigned in his stead.{/i}
²⁶{i}And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.{/i}
²⁷{i}In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, for twenty years.{/i}
²⁸{i}And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.{/i}
²⁹{i}In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.{/i}
³⁰{i}And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him and slew him; and he reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.{/i}
³¹{i}And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.{/i} (2 Kings 15:8‑31)

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2 Chron. 36:1‑12• ¹The people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
²Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
³{i}And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and imposed a fine upon the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.{/i}
⁴{i}And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.{/i}
⁵{i}Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of Jehovah his God.{/i}
⁶{i}Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him with chains of brass to carry him to Babylon.{/i}
⁷{i}And Nebuchadnezzar carried part of the vessels of the house of Jehovah to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.{/i}
⁸{i}And the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.{/i}
⁹{i}Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of Jehovah.{/i}
¹⁰{i}And at the turn of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent and had him brought to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of Jehovah; and he made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.{/i}
¹¹{i}Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.{/i}
¹²{i}And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah his God; he humbled not himself before the prophet Jeremiah speaking from the mouth of Jehovah.{/i} (2 Chron. 36:1‑12)

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Isa. 3:1‑7• ¹For behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;
²the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder;
³the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the skillful enchanter.
⁴And I will give youths to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.
⁵And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the base against the honourable.
⁶When a man shall take hold of his brother, of the house of his father, [saying,] Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler and let this ruin be under thy hand:
⁷in that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing; ye shall not make me a ruler of the people. (Isa. 3:1‑7)

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Hos. 13:11• ¹¹{i}I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.{/i} (Hos. 13:11)

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Gen. 45:5‑8• ⁵And now be not grieved, and let it not be an occasion of anger in your eyes, that ye sold me hither; for God sent me before you to preserve life.
⁶For the famine [hath been] these two years in the midst of the land; and [there are] yet five years in which [shall be] neither plowing nor harvest.
⁷And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
⁸And now [it was] not you sent me here, but God; and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and governor over all the land of Egypt. (Gen. 45:5‑8)

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2 Chron. 32:20‑26• ²⁰For this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz prayed and cried to heaven.
²¹And Jehovah sent an angel which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
²²Thus Jehovah saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib {i}the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all, and protected them on every side.{/i}
²³{i}And many brought gifts unto Jehovah to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; and he was thenceforth magnified in the sight of all the nations.{/i}
²⁴{i}In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death, and he prayed to Jehovah; and he spoke to him and gave him a sign .{/i}
²⁵But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up; {i}and there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem{/i}.
²⁶{i}And Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Jehovah came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.{/i} (2 Chron. 32:20‑26)

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Job 22:28‑30• ²⁸And thou shalt decree a thing, and it is established to thee,{HR}And light shall shine on thy ways.
²⁹When they are dejected, then shalt thou say, Lift up,{HR}And he will save him of downcast eyes;
³⁰He will deliver him that is not guiltless,{HR}And he is rescued by the cleanness of thy hands. (Job 22:28‑30)

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Eccl. 9:15• ¹⁵And there was found in it a poor wise man,{HR}And he by his wisdom delivered the city;{HR}Yet no man remembered that same poor man. (Eccl. 9:15)

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Isa. 58:12• ¹²And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called Repairer of the breach, Restorer of paths of habitation. (Isa. 58:12)

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Dan. 4:27• ²⁷{i}Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity{/i}. (Dan. 4:27)

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by men of understanding and wisdom shall theylikewise be prolonged.

• When a people refuse to own the powers that be as ordained of God, they are likely, in a disrupted state of society, to be exposed to the evil machinations of various leaders, each one jealous of the other; hence their princes or rulers are many, and continually changing. (“Proverbs Twenty-Eight” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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By the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; but by a man of understanding and of knowledge, its stability is prolonged.

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By the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof;{HR}But by a man of understanding [and] of knowledge,{HR}[Its] stability is prolonged.

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)