Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Disposing - Better, the judgment or sentence which depends upon the lot. The lots were thrown into the gathered folds of a robe, and then drawn out. Where everything seemed the merest chance, there the faithful Israelite teacher recognized the guidance of a higher will. Compare the case of Achan Joshua 7:18, and of Jonathan I Samuel 14:37-42. The process here described would seem to have been employed ordinarily in trials where the judges could not decide on the facts before them (compare Proverbs 18:18).
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Proverbs 16:33:
Exodus 28:1-43
Leviticus 16:8
Numbers 26:56
Proverbs 18:18
Jonah 1:7
Acts 1:26
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