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Selected Verse: Proverbs 20:26 - Strong Concordance

Verse         Translation Text
Pr 20:26 Strong Concordance A wise [02450] king [04428] scattereth [02219] the wicked [07563], and bringeth [07725] the wheel [0212] over them.
  King James A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
(Compare Pro 20:8).

bringeth . . . over them--The wheel was used for threshing grain. The figure denotes severity (compare Amo 1:3).
 
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3 Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; For three [07969] transgressions [06588] of Damascus [01834], and for four [0702], I will not turn away [07725] the punishment thereof; because they have threshed [01758] Gilead [01568] with threshing instruments [02742] of iron [01270]:
8 A king [04428] that sitteth in [03427] the throne [03678] of judgment [01779] scattereth away [02219] all evil [07451] with his eyes [05869].
27 For the fitches [07100] are not threshed [01758] with a threshing instrument [02742], neither is a cart [05699] wheel [0212] turned about [05437] upon the cummin [03646]; but the fitches [07100] are beaten out [02251] with a staff [04294], and the cummin [03646] with a rod [07626].
28 Bread [03899] corn is bruised [01854]; because he will not ever [05331] be threshing [0156] [01758] it, nor break [02000] it with the wheel [01536] of his cart [05699], nor bruise [01854] it with his horsemen [06571].
3 Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; For three [07969] transgressions [06588] of Damascus [01834], and for four [0702], I will not turn away [07725] the punishment thereof; because they have threshed [01758] Gilead [01568] with threshing instruments [02742] of iron [01270]:
27 For the fitches [07100] are not threshed [01758] with a threshing instrument [02742], neither is a cart [05699] wheel [0212] turned about [05437] upon the cummin [03646]; but the fitches [07100] are beaten out [02251] with a staff [04294], and the cummin [03646] with a rod [07626].
8 A king [04428] that sitteth in [03427] the throne [03678] of judgment [01779] scattereth away [02219] all evil [07451] with his eyes [05869].