28 Loving 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 devotion חֶ֣סֶד H2617 Noun - masculine singular and faithfulness וֶ֭אֱמֶת H571 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular preserve יִצְּרוּ־ H5341 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural a king מֶ֑לֶךְ H4428 Noun - masculine singular by these בַּחֶ֣סֶד H2617 Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular he maintains וְסָעַ֖ד H5582 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular his throne כִּסְאֽוֹ׃ H3678 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular