Proverbs - 17:3 Meaning
“The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
17:1-3 These words recommend family love and peace, as needful for the comfort of human life. 2. The wise servant is more deserving, and more likely to appear one of the family, than a profligate son. 3. God tries the heart by affliction. He thus has often shown the sin remaining in the heart of the believer.
“Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.”
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