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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 in...
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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....
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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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WITHOUT CAUSE. — To be taken with “lurk.” Though he has done us
no harm....
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אִם ־יֹאמְרוּ֮ לְכָ֪ה אִ֫תָּ֥נוּ
נֶאֶרְבָ֥ה לְ דָ֑ם נִצְפְּנָ֖ה לְ
נָקִ֣י חִנָּֽם׃...
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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 mor...
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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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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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Proverbs 1:11 say H559 (H8799) Come H3212 (H8798) wait H693 (H8799)
blood H1818 lurk H6845 (H8799) innocent H5355 cause H2600
let us lay - Proverbs 1:16, Proverbs 12:6, Proverbs 30:14;...
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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) and the foolish (despising such...
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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 o...
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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;
John 15:25; Micah 7:2; Matthew 26:3; Matthew 26:4; Proverbs 1:16;...
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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
the...