Cross references

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king separates out the wicked

and drives the threshing wheel over them.

Proverbs 20:26 BSB

Proverbs 20:26 has 5 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 20:8 (7 votes) and 2 Samuel 12:31 (4 votes). 8 other verses point back to it. It links with 6 other books, from 2 Samuel 4 to Romans 13.

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Which verses does Proverbs 20:26 point to?

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  1. A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.

  2. David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

  3. But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress, when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news! …

  4. Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure. My eyes favor the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way of integrity shall minister to me. …

  5. Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.

Which verses point to Proverbs 20:26?

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