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CHAPTER III
_An exhortation to obedience_, 1-4;
_trust in God's providence_, 5, 6;
_to humility_, 7, 8;
_to charity_, 9, 10;
_to submission to God's chastening_, 11, 12.
The profitableness of wi...
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CHAPTER 3
_ 1. The call and promise of wisdom (Proverbs 3:1)_
2. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom (Proverbs 3:11)
3. Promise and instruction (Proverbs 3:21)...
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FOURTH Discourse. The sage exhorts the young man to heed his oral
instruction (_torah),_ and to trust in Yahweh, fear Him, and honour
Him in the prescribed manner of firstfruits. It is interesting to...
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MY SON. See note on Proverbs 2:1.
KEEP. watch, guard. See note on Proverbs 4:23....
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_law_ or, _teaching_, R.V. marg. This is the primary meaning of the
Heb. word _Torah_(see Proverbs 1:8 note, Proverbs 4:2; Proverbs 7:2),
which is the common designation of _the Law_, in its Biblical...
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Fourth Address. Chap. Proverbs 3:1-10
Be obedient to my instruction, so shalt thou live long and prosper
(Proverbs 3:1). Trust, not in thyself, but in God (Proverbs 3:5). Seek
His direction ...
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MY SON, FORGET NOT MY LAW— In this chapter Solomon continues to
press obedience to the precepts of wisdom, from a consideration of its
benefits, which he speaks of more largely than in the foregoing
c...
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CHAPTER 3
TEXT Proverbs 3:1-12
1.
My son, forget not my law;
But let thy heart keep my commandments:
2.
For length of days, and years of life,
And peace, will they add to thee.
3.
Let not kind...
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My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs 3:1.-The youth is admonished to keep God's law, which brings
to the obedient long life and peace; not to forsake mercy...
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THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE AND OF CHASTISEMENT
The first and third divisions, 1-10, 21-35, are exhortations to good
conduct and promises of consequent blessing. The second, 11-20,
declares the profit...
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LAW] or 'direction.' The teacher speaks as one having authority....
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בְּ֭נִי תֹּורָתִ֣י אַל ־תִּשְׁכָּ֑ח
וּ֝ מִצְוֹתַ֗י...
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CHAPTER 4
THE EARTHLY REWARDS OF WISDOM
Proverbs 3:1
THE general teaching of these nine introductory Chapter s is that the
"ways of Wisdom are pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." We are
taug...
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CHAPTER 10
TWO VOICES IN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE CITY
Proverbs 9:1, Proverbs 20:14 with Proberbs 3, and Proverbs 20:16 with
Prove
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THE RESULTS OF TRUSTING JEHOVAH
Proverbs 3:1-12
How replete with helpful instruction on the policy of life is this
paragraph! The _young_ of both sexes are invited to be merciful in
their judgments...
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As the former address had to do with the search for wisdom, this, in
view of the value of if is an appeal to cultivate wisdom. The appeal
consists of a declaration of its essence (verses Pro 3:1-10),...
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_My son. God speaks, or the master instructs his disciple, ver. 21.
(Calmet) --- We must remember and love instruction, and reduce it to
practice. (Worthington)_...
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CONTENTS
The same subject is continued in this chapter as in the former; but
with additional arguments. Here are many earnest exhortations to the
exercise of the graces of the Holy Spirit, and the sa...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9.
There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter
s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly
so...
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MY SON, FORGET NOT MY LAW,.... Or, "doctrine" e; the doctrine of
Christ, the Gospel, and the several truths of it; which, being of the
utmost moment and importance, should be kept in memory, and not l...
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My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Ver. 1. _My son, forget not._] We should be able to say to wisdom, as
Coenis did to her Lady Antonia, _Frustra, domina, iussisti:...
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_My son, forget not my law_ My doctrine or counsel; _but let thy heart
keep_, &c. By diligent meditation and hearty affection. _For length of
days_, &c. God will add these blessings which he hath prom...
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My son, forget not my law, the teaching of wisdom; BUT LET THINE HEART
KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, sincerely observing all instructions of God's
Word;...
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OBEDIENCE, FAITH, AND LIBERALITY URGED...
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1-6 In the way of believing obedience to God's commandments health
and peace may commonly be enjoyed; and though our days may not be long
upon earth, we shall live for ever in heaven. Let not mercy a...
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PROVERBS CHAPTER 3 Solomon exhorteth his son to obedience, PROVERBS
3:1. To faith, PROVERBS 3:5,6, and trust in God; the benefits that
they shall receive thereby, PROVERBS 3:7,8. To honour God with ou...
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Proverbs 3:1 son H1121 forget H7911 (H8799) law H8451 heart H3820 keep
H5341 (H8799) commands H4687
fo
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INTRODUCTORY EXHORTATION FOLLOWED BY THE REQUIREMENT TO TRUST IN YHWH,
TO FEAR YHWH AND TO HONOUR YHWH (PROVERBS 3:1).
Solomon here speaks of wisdom and understanding in terms of ‘my
torah -- my comma...
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CONTENTS: The power of true wisdom to make men both blessed and a
blessing.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: Those who have a continual regard to God's precepts and
put themselves unde...
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Proverbs 3:2. _Length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they
add to thee._ The premature death denounced against the profligate,
and the victims of the harlot, shall be far from thy dwelling. T...
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_My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments._
USEFUL PRECEPTS AND INSPIRING MOTIVES
I. To remember and keep in our hearts the things written in this book
(Proverbs 3:1). Int...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 3:1. KEEP. This word, says Miller, primarily means to look
_hard at_, and generally to _keep watch over_, as over a vineyard.
PROVERBS 3:2. LENGTH OF DAYS, properly “extens...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 3:1
4. _Fourth admonitory discourse. _The third chapter introduces us to a
group of admonitions, and the first of these (Proverbs 3:1) forms the
fourth admonitory discourse of the...
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Chapter 3 continues to
My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:
For length of days, long life, peace, shall they add to thee (Proverbs
3:1-2).
Now these are the three. And...
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Deuteronomy 30:16; Deuteronomy 4:23; Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy 6:6;...
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LEST WE FORGET
Proverbs 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The Book of Proverbs speaks several times of the danger of forgetting
God and His Commandments. We are firmly convinced that herein is a
danger that w...
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My law — The law of God, which might be called his law, as the
gospel is called Paul's gospel, 2 Timothy 2:8, because delivered by
him....