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Proverbs 31:29
Many daughters have done virtuously, many women have shown virtue, Ruth 4:11, but thou excellest them all. The author now gives a summary of his remarks.
Many daughters have done virtuously, many women have shown virtue, Ruth 4:11, but thou excellest them all. The author now gives a summary of his remarks.
Verse Proverbs 31:29. _MANY DAUGHTERS HAVE DONE VIRTUOUSLY_] This is undoubtedly the speech of the husband, giving testimony to the excellence of his wife: "Her husband also, and he praiseth her, _sa...
The words of praise which the husband Proverbs 31:28 is supposed to have addressed to the ideal wife. VIRTUOUSLY - The Hebrew word has primarily (like “virtus”) the idea of “strength,” but is used wit...
VII. THE WORDS OF KING LEMUEL TAUGHT HIM BY HIS MOTHER CHAPTER 31 The Virtuous Woman “The words of King Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him”; this is the superscription of this chapter. W...
THIRD DIVISION. THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN. Proverbs 31:10. This, the last division of the appendix, is in form an acrostic poem, each verse commencing with a letter of the Heb. alphabet in order. There are...
This concluding paragraph may be regarded either as the comment of the author himself upon the picture he has just drawn, or as being the actual words of the "praise" bestowed by her husband and her c...
_done virtuously_ This rendering, which recalls the same word in Proverbs 31:10 ("a woman of _virtue_," "have done _virtue_"), is much to be preferred to the rendering of LXX. and Vulg. and A.V. marg....
VIII. The Virtuous Woman. Chap. Proverbs 31:10-31 This short Appendix differs from the other Sections of the Book of Proverbs in having one subject throughout, and in being in form acrostic or alphab...
TEXT Proverbs 31:22-31 22. She maketh for herself carpets of tapestry; Her clothing is fine linen and purple. 23. Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land....
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The praises of a virtuous woman; forming a Hebrew acrostic. The 22 years begin with the several 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet c...
THE MOTHER OF LEMUEL. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN 1-9. An exhortation addressed to king Lemuel by his mother, urging him to avoid women and wine. The latter leads to slackness and unfairness in the administr...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 31 V1 These are the words of King Lemuel. This section is a difficult puzzle that his mother taught to him....
Now the husband speaks. He realises that some other women are good like his wife. But he does not want to be with these other women. His own wife is very special in his opinion. He loves her. He appr...
MANY DAUGHTERS — _i.e._, women (Genesis 30:13; Song of Solomon 6:9); a term of affection....
רַבֹּ֣ות בָּ֭נֹות עָ֣שׂוּ חָ֑יִל וְ֝ אַ֗תְּ ע
CHAPTER 32 A GOOD WOMAN "O woman-hearts, that keep the days of old In living memory, can you stand back When Christ calls? Shall the heavenly Master lack The serving love, which is your life's fi...
“HER WORKS PRAISE HER” Proverbs 31:10-31 The ideal woman, as portrayed here, is a wife. She is the stay and confidence of her husband. Not only when she comes as a young bride into his home, in the g...
This is the second section of the appendix. There have been many conjectures as to who King Lemuel was, but nothing certainly can be said. It is divided into two parts, the first of which consists of...
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the d...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
MANY DAUGHTERS HAVE DONE VIRTUOUSLY,.... This, according to Aben Ezra and Gersom, is what was said by her husband and children, and which seems to be right; especially they may be thought to be the wo...
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. Ver. 29. _Many daughters have done virtuously._] By the benefit of a better nature, or civil education, or for praise of men, or for...
_Many daughters have done virtuously_ Daughters of men, that is, women, so called, Genesis 34:1; Ezekiel 30:18; _but thou excellest them all_ Her husband esteems it but just, that his praises should b...
In THE FINAL CHAPTER of the book has also a peculiar character, King Lemuel is the writer, but not the author, for he simply quotes the words of his mother. Actually, no king of Israel or Judah is kno...
HAVE DONE VIRTUOUSLY: Or, have gotten riches...
DAUGHTERS; daughters of men, i.e. women, so called also GENESIS 34:1 EZEKIEL 30:18. THOU EXCELLEST THEM ALL: he esteems it but just that his praises should bear proportion to her real and manifold per...
Proverbs 31:29 Many H7227 daughters H1323 done H6213 (H8804) well H2428 excel H5927 (H8804) done virtuously - or, gotten riches...
CONTENTS: Words of King Lemuel on the dangers of intemperance and the worth of a godly woman. CHARACTERS: God, Lemuel, his mother. CONCLUSION: A virtuous woman who has command of her own spirit, who...
Proverbs 31:1. _The words of king Lemuel._ Ancient kings had many names and surnames which embarrass history. The first name of Solomon was Jedidiah, or Jedid-jah, beloved of God. 2 Samuel 12:25. Lemu...
_Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all._ TO DAUGHTERS The world has dealt severely with woman. It has always been too fashionable to distort her character, and with cruel c...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 31:10 An Alphabet of Womanly Excellence. As the esv footnote to v. Proverbs 31:10 explains, this w
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 31:28 In a loving family, the members value each other. Here the CHILDREN and HUSBAND offer their praise. Verse...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 31:10. VIRTUOUS. Literally “_a woman of power_.” RUBIES, rather “_pearls_.” PROVERBS 31:11. HE SHALL HAVE NO NEED, etc. Rather, “_He shall not fail of spoil_.” “Strictly, ‘t...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 31:1 PART VIII. SECOND APPENDIX TO THE SECOND COLLECTION, containing "the words of Lemuel" on the subjects of impurity and intemperance....
Now the thirty-first proverb are, The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him (Proverbs 31:1). So these are really the words of King Lemuel's mother unto him. The advice of a go...
Ephesians 5:27; Song of Solomon 6:8; Song of Solomon 6:9...