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Verse Proverbs 1:11. _IF THEY SAY, COME WITH US_] From all accounts,
this is precisely the way in which the workers of iniquity form their
partisans, and constitute their marauding societies to the pr...
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The temptation against which the teacher seeks to guard his disciple
is that of joining a band of highway robbers. The “vain men” who
gathered around Jephthah Judges 11:3, the lawless or discontented...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
A detailed analysis, as we have made it in other books, cannot be
fully made in this collection of proverbs. Most of them are detached
and each has a message by itself. To int...
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PROVERBS 1-9. FIRST SECTION. THE PRAISE OF WISDOM.
Proverbs 1:1. Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular
collection.
The word for PROVERB, _mâ shâ l,_ has a wide significance _in Heb....
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BLOOD. Figure of speech _Metalepsis_ (App-6), "blood" put for
bloodshedding, and then bloodshedding put for the one whose blood was
shed. See Isaiah 33:15.
THE INNOCENT. an innocent one (singular)
W...
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_for blood_ The shameless form of the proposal shows at once the
insecurity and the low moral tone of society. The language is too
strong and vivid to admit of a figurative interpretation: Let us rob...
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TEXT - Proverbs 1:10-19
10.
My son, if sinners entice thee,
Consent thou not.
11.
If they say, Come with us,
Let us lay in wait for blood;
Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
12...
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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk
privily for the innocent without cause:
IF THEY SAY, COME WITH US, LET US LAY WAIT FOR BLOOD - (Proverbs
1:16; Jeremiah 5:26.)
Le...
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The chapter falls into three principal divisions.
1-6. Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book,
which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man's
knowledge. I...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
ABOUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS
King Solomon ruled the nation of Israel for 40 years. He brought
peace and wealth to the nation. Solomon’s workmen built pa...
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THE THIEVES’ PLAN
In Solomon’s story, a band of thieves have a cruel plan.
The thieves ask a young man to join them. Together, they will attack
someone else. They will steal from him, and murder him...
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WITHOUT CAUSE. — To be taken with “lurk.” Though he has done us
no harm....
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אִם ־יֹאמְרוּ֮ לְכָ֪ה אִ֫תָּ֥נוּ
נֶאֶרְבָ֥ה לְ...
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CHAPTER 2
THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of
the Holy One is understa...
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“THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE”
Proverbs 1:1-19
Notice the perfect balance of each clause, and the duplication of the
one thought in the two clauses of each verse.
_Wisdom_ as used in this book is more...
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The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people.
Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God;
intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine
wisdom;...
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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for (k) blood, let us lurk
privily for the innocent without cause:
(k) He speaks not only of the shedding of blood with hand, but of all
crafty practises wh...
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My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of
thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and
chains about thy neck. My son, if sinners entice thee, cons...
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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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IF THEY SAY, COME WITH US,.... Leave your father's house, and the
business of life in which you are; make one of us, and become a member
of our society, and go along with us upon the highway;
LET US...
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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk
privily for the innocent without cause:
Ver. 11. _If they say._] The dragon bites the elephant's ear, and
thence sucks his blood; bec...
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_My son, if sinners_ Sinners of any description; _entice thee _ To
sin, to commit any known iniquity, or to omit any known duty; _consent
thou not_ Yield not in any degree to their advice, persuasions...
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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, without any
reason for revenge, merely out of the lust for slaying; LET US LURK
PRIVILY FOR THE INNOCENT WITHOUT CAUSE, like the huntsman hidden n...
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A FUNDAMENTAL TRAIT OF WISDOM IS THE AVOIDANCE OF WICKEDNESS...
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10-19 Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of
the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the
more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Co...
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COME WITH US; we are numerous, and strong, and sociable. LET US LAY
WAIT FOR BLOOD; to shed blood. He expresseth not their words, which
would rather affright than inveigle a young novice; but the true...
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PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK (PROVERBS 1:8 TO PROVERBS 9:18).
It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for
collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the
‘sayings' that wo...
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THE COMPELLING NEED TO AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY
GREED (PROVERBS 1:10).
Solomon now vividly portrays the dangers of greed and violence, two
things which often go together. The one...
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DISCOURSE 1. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. THOSE WHO SEEK TO WALK IN THE
FEAR OF YHWH WILL LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTION OF GODLY AUTHORITY, AND
WILL AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED. WISDOM I...
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PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK (PROVERBS 1:8 TO PROVERBS 9:18).
It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for
collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the
‘sayings' that wo...
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CONTENTS: Wisdom's reasoning with the children of men and the certain
ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to Wisdom's call.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son, Wisdom, (Christ).
CONCLUSION: Of all thin...
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Proverbs 1:1. _Proverbs,_ apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes.
The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short
maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pa...
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_My son, if sinners entice thee._
REASONS FOR RESISTING THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS
By sinners is meant all persons who are not true Christians. Three
reasons why we should not consent when sinners e...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:8 A Father’s Invitation to Wisdom.
This section describes the two paths implied in Proverbs 1:7: the wise
(grounded in the fear of the Lord) an
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 1:10. ENTICE THEE, “lay thee open.” Miller here reads
“if sinners would make a door of thy simplicity, afford thou no
entrance.”
PROVERBS 1:17. Some interpret this verse as...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 1:1
PART I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION.
The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1 to
verse 6, furnishes us with an epitome in short and concise language of...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Proverbs, chapter 1. The first
six verses are sort of a preface to the book, as authors many times
write a preface to their work.
The Proverbs of Solomon the so...
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Acts 23:15; Acts 25:3; Jeremiah 11:19; Jeremiah 18:18; Jeremiah 5:26
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THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON
Proverbs 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. Solomon's great choice. It was in Gibeon that the Lord appeared
unto Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, "Ask what I shall give
thee...