Proverbs 16:2-12

2 Everything a man does might seem right to him. But the LORD knows what that man is thinking.

3 Commit to the LORD everything you do. Then your plans will succeed.

4 The LORD works everything out for his own purposes. Even those who do wrong were made for a day of trouble.

5 The LORD hates all those who have proud hearts. You can be sure that they will be punished.

6 Through love and truth sin is paid for. People avoid evil when they have respect for the Lord.

7 When the way you live pleases the Lord, he makes even your enemies live at peace with you.

8 It is better to have a little and do right than to have a lot and be unfair.

9 In your heart you plan your life. But the LORD decides where your steps will take you.

10 A king might speak as if his words come from God. But what he says should not turn right into wrong.

11 Honest scales and balances come from the Lord. He made all of the weights in the bag.

12 A king hates it when his people do what is wrong. A ruler is made secure when they do what is right.

Proverbs 16:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST KINGS 6

This chapter gives an account of the building of the temple, for which preparations were before made and begins with the time of its building, 1Ki 6:1; gives the dimensions of it and the porch before it, 1Ki 6:2,3; observes the windows in it and chambers about it, 1Ki 6:4-10; and while it was building, Solomon had a word from the Lord relative to it, 1Ki 6:11-14; and then the account goes on concerning the walls of the house, and the flooring of it, 1Ki 6:15-18; and the oracle in it, and the cherubim in that, 1Ki 6:19-30; and the doors into it, and the carved work of them, 1Ki 6:31-36; and the chapter is concluded with observing the time when it was begun and finished 1Ki 6:37,38.