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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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DISCOURSE: 753
THE NEED OF ATTENDING TO GOD’S GRACIOUS INVITATIONS
Proverbs 1:20. Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the
streets: she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openi...
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TEXT Proverbs 1:20-33
20.
Wisdom crieth aloud in the street;
She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
21.
She crieth in the chief place of concourse;
At the entrance of the gates,
In the city...
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But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my
reproof:
BUT YE HAVE SET AT NOUGHT ALL MY COUNSEL, AND WOULD NONE OF MY
REPROOF. So "the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel o...
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1:25 rejected (c-4) Or 'avoided.' see ch. 4.15....
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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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וַ תִּפְרְע֥וּ כָל ־עֲצָתִ֑י וְ֝
תֹוכַחְתִּ֗י לֹ֣א אֲבִיתֶֽם׃...
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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 CALL OF WISDOM
Proverbs 1:20-33
The word _Wisdom_ and the description of her standing _atthe head of
the noisy streets-_ see Proverbs 1:21, r.v., margin-remind us of our
Lord, who, as the Word o...
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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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Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She
crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates:
in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple...
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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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BUT YE HAVE SET AT NOUGHT ALL MY COUNSEL,.... The same with "the
counsel of God", Acts 20:27. The whole Gospel, and all the truths of
it; the entire scheme of salvation by Jesus Christ, which is the
p...
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But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my
reproof:
Ver. 25. _But ye have set at naught._] As those recusant _a_ guests in
the Gospel that pretended they therefore came not, becau...
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_Because I have called_, &c. By my ministers, my judgments, the
motions of my Spirit, and your own consciences; _and ye refused_ To
obey my call; _I have stretched out my hand_ Offering mercy and grac...
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THE INVITATION OF WISDOM...
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20-33 Solomon, having showed how dangerous it is to hearken to the
temptations of Satan, here declares how dangerous it is not to hearken
to the calls of God. Christ himself is Wisdom, is Wisdoms. Th...
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SET AT NOUGHT, or _despised_, or _made void_; resisted its power and
authority. MY COUNSEL: either,
1. My design of doing sinners good, which you have made of none effect
to yourselves. Or,
2. My co...
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Proverbs 1:25 disdained H6544 (H8799) counsel H6098 would H14 (H8804)
rebuke H8433
you - Proverbs 1:30; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Psalms 107:11; Luke 7:30
would - Proverbs 1:30,...
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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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Proverbs 1:24.
The words of the text are awful, but not hopeless; they pronounce
God's judgment on the finally impenitent; the penitent they but
awaken, that they may "hear the voice of the Son of Go...
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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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_Because I have called, and ye refused._
THE REJECTED CALL OF WISDOM
I. The manner in which it has called upon you--in which the appeals of
Wisdom and of religion have been made. In the manner, the...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:20 Wisdom is personified here as a
woman. She is pictured appealing to simple ones, scoffers, and fools
to pay attention to her words. Wisdom speaks in a way that recalls t...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 1:20. The word _wisdom_ is in the plural form in the Hebrew.
PROVERBS 1:27. DESOLATION, or “tempest.”
PROVERBS 1:28. To seek early denotes “earnestly.” See ch. Proverbs
8:...
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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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2 Chronicles 36:16; Luke 7:30; Proverbs 1:30; Proverbs 12:1; Proverbs
5:12; Psalms 107:11; Psalms 81:11...
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WISDOM'S CALL
Proverbs 1:20
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. Where the voice of Wisdom is heard. Wisdom doth not speak alone
among the wise. She doth not sound forth her voice alone in cloistered
circles, whe...