26 A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:26
The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures
The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.
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Verse 26
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A wise חָכָ֑ם H2450 Adjective - masculine singular king מֶ֣לֶךְ H4428 Noun - masculine singular separates out מְזָרֶ֣ה H2219 Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular the wicked רְ֭שָׁעִים H7563 Adjective - masculine plural and drives וַיָּ֖שֶׁב H7725 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular the threshing wheel אוֹפָֽן׃ H212 Noun - masculine singular over them עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם H5921 Preposition | third person masculine plural