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The “house” is figurative of the whole life, the “chambers” of
all regions, inward and outward, of it....
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CHAPTER 24 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED
In the final instructions of this chapter we find first a description
of the evil men. Their heart studieth destruction; their lips talk
mischief. This theme is repea...
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PROVERBS 24:7 A. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a
change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made
of an obviously corrupt stanza.
Proverbs 24:9. thought: the wo...
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CHAMBERS. inner chambers....
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_shall … be_ Rather, ARE....
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CHAPTER 24
TEXT Proverbs 24:1-12
1.
Be not thou envious against evil men;
Neither desire to be with them:
2.
For their heart studieth oppression,
And their lips talk of mischief.
3.
Through wi...
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And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and
pleasant riches. BY KNOWLEDGE - of God, and of our duty to Him, to our
neighbour, and to ourselves.
ALL PRECIOUS AND PLEASANT RIC...
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5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge
than a man of strength.'...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 24
V1 Do not be jealous of evil men.
Do not try to meet them.
V2 They make cruel plans in their minds.
And they discuss how to cause trouble...
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ALL PRECIOUS AND PLEASANT RICHES. — Not only earthly wealth, but the
“true riches” (Luke 16:11), the knowledge and love of God. (Comp.
note on Proverbs 23:23.)...
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וּ֭ בְ דַעַת חֲדָרִ֣ים יִמָּלְא֑וּ
כָּל ־הֹ֖ון יָקָ֣ר וְ נָעִֽים׃...
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CHAPTER 25
FORGIVING
"Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not
with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I
will render to the man according to hi...
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Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil
companionships, against excess in passion, against all false
exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest
endeavor to...
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Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31.
In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to
avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be
follow...
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AND BY KNOWLEDGE SHALT THE CHAMBERS BE FILLED WITH ALL PRECIOUS AND
PLEASANT RICHES. That are both of worth, value, and usefulness, and
for ornament and delight; the more private and retired parts of...
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And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and
pleasant riches.
Ver. 4. _With all precious and pleasant riches._] Riches imply (1.)
Plenty of that which is precious and pleasant....
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_Through wisdom is a house built_ There is no need that thou shouldst
raise thyself and family by ruining others, as the manner of wicked
men is; for thou mayest more easily and effectually do it by w...
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V. 4. AND BY KNOWLEDGE SHALL THE CHAMBERS BE FILLED WITH ALL PRECIOUS
AND PLEASANT RICHES, the words describing not a miserly hoarding of
money, but a condition of the household which speaks of a comf...
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KNOWLEDGE; which in Scripture phrase includes the love and practice of
that which we know....
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Proverbs 24:4 knowledge H1847 rooms H2315 filled H4390 (H8735)
precious H3368 pleasant H5273 riches H1952
Proverbs 15:6, Proverbs 20:15, Proverbs 21:20, Proverbs 27:23-27; 1
Kings
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: If wicked people prosper, we should not be inclined to do
as they do, nor complain of what God does in His provide...
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Proverbs 24:1. _Be not envious against evil men._ Similar thoughts
occur in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73; Proverbs 17:1. Why should we envy the
wicked? We are all going to lie in the common dust; their pros...
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_Through wisdom is an house builded._
THE SPIRITUAL EDIFICE
The subject is wisdom, with its enlargements of understanding and
knowledge--terms probably used to denote the expansions of the master
pr...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:3 The images of wisdom’s benefits (A
HOUSE... BUILT, ESTABLISHED, and FILLED) include material provision in
addition to a blessed family life. These are received BY WISDOM...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 24:5. A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE, rather “_a man of
understanding_,” INCREASETH STRENGTH, literally “_maketh power
strong_.” Miller translates the entire verse thus:—“_A strong
man,...
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 24:1
We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. BE NOT THOU
ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN (see on Proverbs 23:17, where a similar
warning is given, and comp. Proverbs 23:1...
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Again, he continues in twenty-four in putting them together in
couplets or in phrases.
Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For
their heart studies destruction, and their...
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1 Chronicles 27:25; 1 Chronicles 29:2; 1 Kings 4:22; 2 Chronicles
26:4; 2 Chronicles 4:18; Matthew 13:52; Nehemiah 10:39; Nehemiah 13:5;
Proverbs 15:6;...
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By knowledge — Which in scripture phrase includes the love and
practice of what we know....