Proverbs Chapter 14 verse 28 Holy Bible
In the multitude of people is the king's glory; But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
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A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.
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In the multitude of people is the king's glory; but in the lack of people is the ruin of a prince.
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In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
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In the multitude of people is the king's glory, But in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.
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In the multitude of a people `is' the honour of a king, And in lack of people the ruin of a prince.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 28. - In the multitude of people is the king's honour (glory); but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince; or, of the principality. This maxim is not in accordance with the views of Oriental conquerors and despots, who in their selfish lust of aggrandizement cared not what suffering they inflicted or what blood they shed; who made a wilderness and called it peace. The reign of Solomon, the peaceful, gave an intimation that war and conquest were not a monarch's highest glory: that a happy and numerous people, dwelling securely and increasing in numbers, was a better honour for a king and more to be desired (1 Kings 4:20). Increase of population is not, as some political economists would teach, in itself an evil; it is rather a sign of prosperity, and is in agreement with the primeval blessing, "Increase and multiply;" and though it may be hard to maintain the exact equilibrium between production and consumers, yet wise legislation can foresee and remedy the difficulty, the abundance in one part can supply the scarcity in another, the providence of God watching over all.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(28) In the multitude of people is the king's honour.--Not in ambitious wars. In these words speaks the "man of rest" (1Chronicles 22:9). (Comp. the description of Solomon's kingdom in the days of his prosperity; 1Kings 4:20.)
