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The character of a sustained throne is named in Proverbs 20:28: Loyalty and truth preserve the king, and he upholds his throne by righteousness (v. 28). A king’s stability is not founded primarily on walls, armies, or alliances.
Loyalty and truth preserve the king. Loyalty here is covenant faithfulness, the Hebrew word hesed, which carries the weight of committed, covenant-loyal love. A king sustained by hesed between him and his people has something deeper than power.
He upholds his throne by righteousness. The same principle applies to leadership at any level. The durability of authority is moral before it is structural. A leader who does not love his people and tell them the truth is being held up only by inertia. When the inertia stops, so does he.
Used with permission from TheBibleSays.com.
You can access the original article here:Proverbs 20:28 Meaning
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