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Verse Proverbs 1:12. _LET US SWALLOW THEM UP ALIVE_] Give them as
hasty a death as if the earth were suddenly to swallow them up. This
seems to refer to the destruction of a whole village. Let us dest...
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i. e., “We will be as all-devouring as Sheol. The destruction of
those we attack shall be as sudden as that of those who go down
quickly into the pit.” Some render the latter clause, and upright
men a...
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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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THE GRAVE. Hebrew. _sheol._ App-35.
PIT. Hebrew. _bor,_. hole bored or dug. Hence. dry pit or grave.
Compare Genesis 37:20....
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_the grave_ or, _Sheol_, R.V. text, ᾅδης LXX., infernus Vulg.
_whole_ Some (as R.V. marg. _even the perfect_) give the Heb. word
here the moral sense, which it has elsewhere. But both the parallelism...
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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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Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that
go down into the pit:
LET US SWALLOW THEM UP ALIVE AS THE GRAVE; AND WHOLE, AS THOSE THAT
GO DOWN INTO THE PIT - so as to leave n...
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1:12 Sheol, (a-8) See Note h, Psalms 6:5 ....
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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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GRAVE] 'Sheol' (RV) and the pit are the cheerless under-world, away
from God and all real life, which the dead were supposed to inhabit
(Proverbs 2:18; Proverbs 23:14)....
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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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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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ALIVE. — Comp. the death of Dathan and Abiram (Numbers 16:30)....
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נִ֭בְלָעֵם כִּ שְׁאֹ֣ול חַיִּ֑ים וּ֝
תְמִימִ֗ים...
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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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Let us swallow them up alive as the (l) grave; and whole, as those
that go down into the pit:
(l) As the grave is never satisfied, so the malice of the wicked and
their cruelty has no end....
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_Pit. Grave, or hell, like Dathan, Numbers xvi. This shews the
greatest rage, Job xxxi. 31._...
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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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LET US SWALLOW THEM UP ALIVE AS THE GRAVE,.... The innocent person,
and those that are with him, his servants; our gang is so numerous
that we can very easily dispatch him and all his attendants, and...
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Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go
down into the pit:
Ver. 12. _Let us swallow them up alive._] As the devil doth. 1 Peter
5:8 2Ti 2:26 _Homo homini demon._ The po...
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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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let us swallow them up alive as the grave, their murder bringing them
down to the realm of the dead, AND WHOLE, while they are living in
uprightness and in full possession of God's blessings, AS THOSE...
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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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AS THE GRAVE; which speedily covers and consumes dead bodies. See
PSALMS 55:15, PSALMS 124:3. We shall do our work quickly, easily, and
without fear of discovery. INTO THE PIT; into some deep pit, int...
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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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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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GRAVE
Hebrew, "Sheol,"
(_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
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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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Jeremiah 51:34; Lamentations 2:16; Lamentations 2:5; Micah 3:2; Mica
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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...