Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 24:21

21 My son, fear thou the LORD, and the king : and meddle not with them that are given to change .

Honour and obey both God and the King, and all in Authority. He puts God before the King, because God is to be served in the first place, and our obedience is to be given to Kings onely in subordination to God, and not in those things which are contrary to the will and command of God, as is manifest both from plain Scripture, as Act. 5. 29. and from the judgment and practice of wise and sober Heathens.

Heb. Mix not thy self with them, either in their counsels and practices, or in familiar conversation.

That love or use changes, that are unstable in their Obedience to God or to the King, and are prone to rebellion against either of them. Those men that wickedly forsake God, and break his Laws are said to change their God, Jer. 2. 11. and to change God's judgments and Ordinances, Isa. 24. 5. Ezek. 5. 6.

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