Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Proverbs 3:10
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall (g) burst out with new wine.
(g) For the faithful distributor God gives in greater abundance.
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall (g) burst out with new wine.
(g) For the faithful distributor God gives in greater abundance.
Compare the marginal reference. This fullness of outward blessings does not exclude the thought of the “chastening” Proverbs 3:11, without which the discipline of life would be incomplete. “Presses” a...
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)...
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...
PRESSES. wine-vats. Hebrew. _yekeb._ Not _gath_. a wine-press. BURST OUT. overflow. NEW WINE. Hebrew. _tirosh._ App-27....
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 ...
_presses shall burst out_ Rather, FATS SHALL OVERFLOW, R.V. "The wine-press of the Jews consisted of two receptacles or vats placed at different elevations, in the upper one of which the grapes were t...
DISCOURSE: 758 THE REWARD OF CHARITY Proverbs 3:9. _Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shal...
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...
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. SO SHALL THY BARNS BE FILLED WITH PLENTY, AND THY PRESSES SHALL BURST OUT WITH NEW WINE. So far from becomin...
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...
PRESSES] i.e. 'vats.' 11, 12. Bp. Andrewes prayed: 'From Thine anger, and yet more from Thy ceasing to be angry, good Lord, deliver us.'...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 3 V1 My son, do not forget my law. Keep my commands in your heart. v
In Malachi 3:6-12, Malachi accuses the people. He says that they have stolen from God. This is because they have not given their gifts for God’s work. The truth is that all our possessions belong to...
PRESSES. — Or _vats,_ into which the newly pressed juice flowed: the “winefat” of Mark 12:1. (Comp. the promise to follow upon payment of tithes, Malachi 3:8.)...
וְ יִמָּלְא֣וּ אֲסָמֶ֣יךָ שָׂבָ֑ע וְ֝ תִירֹ֗ושׁ...
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
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...
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...
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),...
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine...
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...
SO SHALL THY BARNS BE FILLED WITH PLENTY,.... With plenty of corn; so that there will be a sufficient provision of bread for the eater for the ensuing year, and of seed for the sower when the time of...
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. Ver. 10. _So shall thy barns be filled._] The Jews at this day, though not in their own country, nor have a Le...
_Honour the Lord with thy substance_ Lay out thy estate, not to please thyself, but to glorify God; _and with the first-fruits of all thy increase_ Or, with _the chief_, or _best;_ which answers to th...
so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, as a reward of God's gracious favor and fatherly kindness, AND THY PRESSES, rather, the vats where the wine was stored, SHALL BURST OUT WITH NEW WINE, overflo...
OBEDIENCE, FAITH, AND LIBERALITY URGED...
7-12 There is not a greater enemy to the fear of the Lord in the heart, than self-conceit of our own wisdom. The prudence and sobriety which religion teaches, tend not only to the health of the soul,...
This is not the way to diminish thy estate, as covetous and profane persons allege, but rather to increase it. SHALL BURST OUT; shall be so filled, that they would burst out, if not carefully prevente...
Proverbs 3:10 barns H618 filled H4390 (H8735) plenty H7647 vats H3342 overflow H6555 (H8799) wine H8492...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 3:10 The prosperity described here is the blessing of the covenant (Deuteronomy 28:1), a kind of restored Eden. Your barns will be filled with plent
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 3:8. NAVEL, “body” or “muscles.” MARROW, literally “refreshing,” “moistening,” in contrast to the condition described in Psalms 32:3. PROVERBS 3:11. DESPITE NOT, or “loathe...
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...
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...
2 Corinthians 9:6; Deuteronomy 28:8; Ecclesiastes 11:1; Ecclesiastes 11:2;...
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...
So — This is not the way to diminish thy estate, but rather to increase it....