Verse 10. A divine sentence ] µsq kesem, "divination," as the margin has it. Is the meaning as follows? Though divination were applied to a righteous king's lips, to induce him to punish the innocent and spare the guilty, yet would not his lips transgress in judgment; so firmly attached is he to God, and so much is he under the Divine care and influence.
Clarke's Commentary PROVERBS NOTES ON CHAP. XVI 16
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-(Divination by an alleged assistance of evil spirits)
-Forbidden
#LE 19:26-28,31; 20:6; DE 18:9-14
-Denounced
#ISA 8:19; MAL 3:5
-Practiced
.By the Egyptians
#ISA 19:3,11,12
.By the magicians
#EX 7:11,22; 8:7,18
.By Balaam
#NU 22:6; 23:23; with 22; 23
.By Jezebel
#2KI 9:22
.By the Ninevites
#NA 3:4,5
.By the Babylonians
#ISA 47:9-13; EZE 21:21,22; DA 2:2,10,27
.By Belshazzar
#DA 5:7,15
.By Simon the Sorcerer (Magus)
#AC 8:9; 11
.By Elymas (Bar-Jesus)
#AC 13:8
.By the girl at Philippi
#AC 16:16
.By charlatan Jews
#AC 19:13
.By sons of Sceva
#AC 19:14,15
.By astrologers
#JER 10:2; MIC 3:6,7
.By false prophets
#JER 14:14; 27:9; 29:8,9; EZE 13:6-9; 22:28; MT 24:24
-To cease
#EZE 12:23,24; 13:23; MIC 5:12
-Messages of, false
#EZE 21:29; Z2 EC 10:2; 2TH 2:9
-Diviners will be confounded
#MIC 3:7
-Belongs to the works of the flesh
#GA 5:20
-Wickedness of
#1SA 15:23
-Vainness of
#ISA 44:25
-Punishment for
#EX 22:18; LE 20:27; DE 13:5
-Divining by familiar spirits (mediums or spiritists)
#LE 20:27; 1CH 10:13; 2CH 33:6; ISA 8:19; 19:3; 29:4
-By entrails
#EZE 21:21
-By images
#2KI 23:24; EZE 21:21
-By rods
#HO 4:12
-Saul consulted the Witch of Endor
#1SA 28:7-25
-Books of, destroyed
#AC 19:19