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Verse 14. THERE WAS _A LITTLE CITY, AND FEW MEN WITHIN IT_] Here is
another proof of the vanity of sublunary things; the _ingratitude of
men_, and the _little compensation_ that _genuine_ _merit_ rec...
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A parable probably without foundation in fact. Critics who ascribe
this book to a late age offer no better suggestion than that the
“little city” may be Athens delivered 480 b.c. from the host of
Xerx...
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2. PRAISE OF WISDOM AND PHILOSOPHY, THEFINAL WORD AND THE GREAT
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 9:13-18
Before he had declared that wisdom is strength. He comes back to this
statement and gives an illustration o...
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ECCLESIASTES 8:16 TO ECCLESIASTES 9:16. LIFE'S RIDDLE BAFFLES THE
WISEST QUEST. The parenthesis in Ecclesiastes 8:16_ b_ describes the
ceaseless effort of the keen student of life, or perhaps the fate
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_there was a little city_ The city has been identified by one
commentator (Hitzig) with Dora, which was besieged unsuccessfully by
Antiochus the Great in b.c. 218 (Polyb. 9:66). Josephus describes it,...
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DISCOURSE: 842
WISDOM NOTIONALLY APPROVED, BUT PRACTICALLY DISREGARDED
Ecclesiastes 9:14. There was a little city, and few men within it: and
there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and b...
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6. Wisdom is declared to be the greatest guide in our work.
Ecclesiastes 9:13-18
TEXT 9:13-18
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Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me.
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There was a small city wi...
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There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a
great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks
against it:
A LITTLE CITY ... So Abel, which the wisdom of one wom...
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LIVE WORTHILY WHILE YOU MAY
1-3. The future is in God's hands. Good and bad alike must die....
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THE TEACHER SEARCHES FOR
THE PURPOSE OF OUR LIVES
BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 9
EVERYONE MUST DIE AT SOME TIME – ECCLESIASTES 9:1-10...
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Idle attempts have been made to find a historic reference in this
passage. What is here told is so like the story (2 Samuel 20) of the
deliverance of Abel-beth-Maachah by a wise woman, whose name,
nev...
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עִ֣יר קְטַנָּ֔ה וַ אֲנָשִׁ֥ים בָּ֖הּ
מְעָ֑ט ו
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THE CHIEF GOOD NOT TO BE FOUND IN WISDOM:
Ecclesiastes 8:16; Ecclesiastes 9:1
1. The Preacher commences this section by carefully defining his
position and equipment as he starts on his final course...
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NOR IN DEVOTION TO AFFAIRS AND ITS REWARDS.
Ecclesiastes 9:13; Ecclesiastes 10:1
So far, then, Coheleth has been occupied in retracing the argument of
the first Section of the Book. Now he returns up...
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In view of the evidences of the truth of the affirmation, "vanity...
all is vanity," the preacher now turns to its effect on the mind of
the man living "under the sun." He extols this worldly wisdom,...
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_And the siege, &c. Hebrew has only "great bulwarks over or against
it." (Haydock)_...
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There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great
king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
(15) Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by...
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_THE SAVIOUR OF THE CITY_
‘There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a
great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks
against it,’ etc.
Ecclesiastes 9:14
I. T...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 12.
The Book of Ecclesiastes is, up to a certain point, the converse of
the Book of Proverbs. (see NOTE TO PROVERBS below) It is the
experience of a...
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[THERE WAS] A LITTLE CITY, AND FEW MEN WITHIN IT,.... Which some take
to be a piece of history, a real matter of fact; that as the city of
Abel, when besieged by Joab, was delivered by the counsel of...
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Ecclesiastes 9:14 _[There was] a little city, and few men within it;
and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built
great bulwarks against it:_
Ver. 14. _There was a little ci...
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_This wisdom have I seen_ I have observed this among many other
instances and effects of wisdom. Which he adds for the commendation of
wisdom, notwithstanding its insufficiency for man's safety and
ha...
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WISDOM STILL TO BE SOUGHT...
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There was a little city, and few men within it, to serve as its
defenders against an enemy; AND THERE CAME A GREAT KING AGAINST IT,
quite naturally in command of a large force, AND BESIEGED IT, AND
BU...
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"THERE WAS. SMALL CITY WITH FEW MEN IN IT AND. GREAT KING CAME TO IT,
SURROUNDED IT, AND CONSTRUCTED LARGE SIEGE-WORKS AGAINST IT....
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13-18 A man may, by his wisdom, bring to pass that which he could
never do by his strength. If God be for us, who can be against us, or
stand before us? Solomon observes the power of wisdom, though i...
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It matters not whether this was a real history, or only a parable to
represent the common practices of men in such cases....
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Ecclesiastes 9:14 little H6996 city H5892 few H4592 men H582 great
H1419 king H4428 came H935 (H8804) besieg
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A PARABLE OF WISDOM AND INGRATITUDE (ECCLESIASTES 9:13).
Ecclesiastes 9:13
‘I have seen also wisdom under the sun like this. There was a small
city and few men in it. And there came a great king agai...
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CHAPTER 9 THE SAME THINGS HAPPEN TO ALL WHETHER THEY BE RIGHTEOUS,
WISE OR SONS OF MEN. AND IN THE END ALL DIE IN THE SAME WAY. SO LET
THE RIGHTEOUS LIVE LIFE AS THEY MAY AND ENJOY IT FOR GOD HAS ACCE...
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Ecclesiastes 9:14
I. The little city. At first sight it may seem rather paradoxical to
compare this great world of ours, with its almost innumerable
inhabitants, its vast area, its enormous resources,...
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Ecclesiastes 8:16-10
I. At the end of chap. viii. and the beginning of chap. ix., Koheleth
points out that it is impossible for us to construct a satisfactory
policy of life. "The work of God," or, as...
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CONTENTS: The universality of death and the need of minding the
business of life and using wisdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: While there is life there is opportunity of preparing for
dea...
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Ecclesiastes 9:5. _The dead know not any thing._ This is explained by
the next phrase, _the memory of them is forgotten._ Elijah went up to
heaven, or paradise, as the Jews will have it. John 3:13. Si...
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_There was a little city, and few men within it._
THE LITTLE CITY AND THE POOR WISE MAN
The little city, as first introduced to our notice, is in sore
straits. The legion of the foe seem innumerable,...
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ECCLESIASTES—NOTE ON ECCLESIASTES 9:13 Wisdom can achieve much good
and is worth pursuing. Yet its benefits can be undone by evil.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
ECCLESIASTES 9:13. THIS WISDOM.] The special instance of the power of
wisdom related in the next verse.
ECCLESIASTES 9:14. FEW MEN WITHIN IT.] Not a city with a scanty
population, b...
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EXPOSITION
ECCLESIASTES 9:1
One fate happens to all, and the dead are cut off from all the
feelings and interests of life in the upper world.
ECCLESIASTES 9:1
This continues the subject treated abo...
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For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that
the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God:
no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them...
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2 Kings 6:24; 2 Kings 7:1; 2 Samuel 20:15...