28Loving devotion and faithfulness preserve a king; by these he maintains his throne.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:28
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 28
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Loving devotionחֶ֣סֶדH2617Noun - masculine singularand faithfulnessוֶ֭אֱמֶתH571Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singularpreserveיִצְּרוּ־H5341Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plurala kingמֶ֑לֶךְH4428Noun - masculine singularby theseבַּחֶ֣סֶדH2617Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singularhe maintainsוְסָעַ֖דH5582Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singularhis throneכִּסְאֽוֹ׃H3678Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular