Proverbs 16:10

God's Word

When a divine revelation is on a king’s lips, he cannot voice a wrong judgment.

Cross References

Genesis 44:15

Joseph asked them, “What have you done? Don’t you know that a man like me can find things out because he knows the future?”

Genesis 44:5

Isn’t this the cup that my master drinks from and that he uses for telling the future? What you have done is evil!’ ”

2 Samuel 14:16

Maybe the king will listen and rescue me, his subject, from the man who wants to cut off both me and my son from ⌞our⌟ God-given inheritance.’

1 Kings 3:28

All Israel heard about the decision the king made. They respected the king very highly, because they saw he possessed wisdom from God to do what was right.

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God. He went into the Lord’s temple to burn incense on the incense altar.

Psalm 99:4

The king’s strength is that he loves justice. You have established fairness. You have done what is fair and right for Jacob.

Proverbs 29:4

By means of justice, a king builds up a country, but a person who confiscates religious contributions tears it down.

Hosea 10:4

They say many things. They lie when they take oaths, and they make promises they don’t intend to keep. That’s why lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Amos 5:7

You, Israel, turn justice into poison and throw righteousness on the ground.

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on rocks? Does a farmer plow the sea with oxen? Yet, you have turned justice into something deadly and what is righteous into poison.