Proverbs 25:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:5

Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

2 Samuel 14:19

The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who bade me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid.

Ezra 4:15

in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste.

Ezra 4:19

And I made a decree, and search has been made, and it has been found that this city from of old has risen against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it.

Ezra 5:17

Therefore, if it seem good to the king, let search be made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by Cyrus the king for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send us his pleasure in this matter.”

Ezra 6:1

Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents were stored.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

Job 38:4

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

Job 40:2

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Job 42:3

‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat much honey, so be sparing of complimentary words.

Proverbs 25:3

As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the mind of kings is unsearchable.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.

Deuteronomy 29:28

and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as at this day.’

Deuteronomy 29:29

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.