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Verse Proverbs 1:16. _FOR THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL_] The whole of this
verse is wanting in the _Septuagint_, and in the _Arabic_....
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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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THEIR FEET. they. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part),
App-6, for the persons who run. Quoted in Romans 3:15. evil. mischief.
Hebrew. _rcl'a'._ App-44....
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This verse is omitted here by the LXX. It occurs again in Isaiah 59:7,
where, however, the Heb. (but not the LXX.) has "innocent" blood....
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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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For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
FOR THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL, AND MAKE HASTE TO SHED BLOOD. is drawn
from this. Compare for FOR THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL, AND MAKE HASTE TO
SH...
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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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FOR THEIR FEET... — The first reason against taking part with them:
the horrible nature of the crime they are committing....
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כִּ֣י רַ֭גְלֵיהֶם לָ † רַ֣ע יָר֑וּצוּ
וִֽ֝ ימַהֲר֗וּ לִ שְׁפָּךְ ־דָּֽם׃...
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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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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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FOR THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL,.... To the evil of sin, to commit
robberies and murder, and all manner of iniquity; they are eager upon
it, and in haste and swift to do it, Proverbs 6:18 x; being carried...
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For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Ver. 16. _For their feet run to evil._] By the abuse of their
locomotive faculty, given them to a better purpose. They "run," as if
they shou...
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_Walk not thou in the way with them_ Avoid their courses, their
conversation, and company. _Refrain thy foot from their path_ If thou
shouldst have any thought, inclination, or temptation to hearken t...
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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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THEIR FEET RUN; they make haste, as it follows, without considering
what they are doing. TO EVIL; to do evil to others, as was expressed
PROVERBS 1:11,12, which also will bring evil upon themselves. T...
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Proverbs 1:16 feet H7272 run H7323 (H8799) evil H7451 haste H4116
(H8762) shed H8210 (H8800) blood H1818
Proverbs 4:16, Proverbs 6:18; Isaiah 59:7; Romans 3:5...
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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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Isaiah 59:7; Proverbs 4:16; Proverbs 6:18; Romans 3:5...
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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...