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Verse Proverbs 1:14. _CAST IN THY LOT_] Be a _frater conjuratus_, a
sworn brother, and thou shalt have an equal share of all the spoil.
Common sense must teach us that the words here used are such as...
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The second form of temptation (see Proverbs 1:10 note) appeals to the
main attraction of the robber-life, its wild communism, the sense of
equal hazards and equal hopes....
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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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_Cast in thy lot_ and so R.V. marg. But, _Thou shall cast thy lot
among us_, R.V. text: i.e. Thou shalt share our gains, as the 2nd
clause of the verse explains, "We will all have one purse," R.V....
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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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Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
CAST IN THY LOT AMONG US; LET US ALL HAVE ONE PURSE. You shall have
your share in the equal division of the booty by lot. We all shall
have one...
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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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גֹּ֭ורָ֣לְךָ תַּפִּ֣יל בְּ תֹוכֵ֑נוּ
כִּ֥יס אֶ֝חָ֗ד...
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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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Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one (m) purse:
(m) He shows how the wicked are allured to join together, because they
have everyone part of the spoil of the innocent....
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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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CAST IN THY LOT AMONG US,.... Or "thou shall cause thy lot to fall
among us" u; though just entered, as soon as any booty is taken thou
shalt cast lots with us, and have thy full share with those that...
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Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Ver. 14. _Let us all have one purse._] How much better were a wallet
to beg from door to door, than such a cursed hoard of evil gotten
goods!...
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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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A FUNDAMENTAL TRAIT OF WISDOM IS THE AVOIDANCE OF WICKEDNESS...
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cast in thy lot among us, joining them on an equal basis, also in the
division of the booty; LET US ALL HAVE ONE PURSE, one treasury in
which they would all share. Such a proposal might place glitteri...
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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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CAST IN THY LOT AMONG US, i.e. put in thy money into our stock. Or
rather, THOU SHALT CAST THY LOT AMONGST US, i.e. thou shalt have a
share with us, and that equally and by lot, although thou art but...
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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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Deuteronomy 25:13; Genesis 19:1; Leviticus 16:8; Leviticus 16:9;...
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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...