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Selected Verse: Proverbs 21:22 - Strong Concordance

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Pr 21:22 Strong Concordance A wise [02450] man scaleth [05927] the city [05892] of the mighty [01368], and casteth down [03381] the strength [05797] of the confidence [04009] thereof.
  King James A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

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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]
"Wisdom is better than strength" (Ecc 7:19; Ecc 9:15).

strength . . . thereof--that in which they confide.
 
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15 Now there was found [04672] in it a poor [04542] wise [02450] man [0376], and he by his wisdom [02451] delivered [04422] the city [05892]; yet no man [0120] remembered [02142] that same poor [04542] man [0376].
19 Wisdom [02451] strengtheneth [05810] the wise [02450] more than ten [06235] mighty [07989] men which are in the city [05892].
4 (For [1063] the weapons [3696] of our [2257] warfare [4752] are not [3756] carnal [4559], but [235] mighty [1415] through God [2316] to [4314] the pulling down [2506] of strong holds [3794];)
20 Only the trees [06086] which thou knowest [03045] that they be not trees [06086] for meat [03978], thou shalt destroy [07843] and cut them down [03772]; and thou shalt build [01129] bulwarks [04692] against the city [05892] that maketh [06213] war [04421] with thee, until it be subdued [03381].
17 And it shall come to pass after the end [07093] of seventy [07657] years [08141], that the LORD [03068] will visit [06485] Tyre [06865], and she shall turn [07725] to her hire [0868], and shall commit fornication [02181] with all the kingdoms [04467] of the world [0776] upon the face [06440] of the earth [0127].
14 His confidence [04009] shall be rooted out [05423] of his tabernacle [0168], and it shall bring [06805] him to the king [04428] of terrors [01091].
13 And Moab [04124] shall be ashamed [0954] of Chemosh [03645], as the house [01004] of Israel [03478] was ashamed [0954] of Bethel [01008] their confidence [04009].
1 In that day [03117] shall this song [07892] be sung [07891] in the land [0776] of Judah [03063]; We have a strong [05797] city [05892]; salvation [03444] will God appoint [07896] for walls [02346] and bulwarks [02426].
7 They shall run [07323] like mighty men [01368]; they shall climb [05927] the wall [02346] like men [0582] of war [04421]; and they shall march [03212] every one [0376] on his ways [01870], and they shall not break [05670] their ranks [0734]:
14 There was a little [06996] city [05892], and few [04592] men [0582] within it; and there came [0935] a great [01419] king [04428] against it, and besieged [05437] it, and built [01129] great [01419] bulwarks [04685] against it: