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Verse Proverbs 3:8. _IT SHALL BE HEALTH TO THY NAVEL_] We need not
puzzle ourselves to find out what we may suppose to be a more
_delicate_ meaning for the original word שר _shor_ than _navel_; for
I...
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NAVEL - The central region of the body is taken as the representative
of all the vital organs. For “health” we should read healing, or,
as in the marg. There is probably a reference to the local
appli...
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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)
Proverbs 3:1. The call to obedience...
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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...
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HEALTH. healing. Occurs only here.
NAVEL. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part) for the whole
body (App-6). But Septuagint and Syriac, following. different
spelling, read "body".
MARROW. mo...
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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 (Proverbs...
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HEALTH TO THY NAVEL— Many expositors, after the LXX, render this,
_It shall be health to thy flesh,_ or _to thy body,_ instead of _thy
navel:_ but the learned Schultens has shewn that the word is prop...
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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...
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It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
IT SHALL BE HEALTH TO THY NAVEL, AND MARROW TO THY BONES - "it,"
namely, the obedient "fear of the Lord" just described (). Plasters
and em...
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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...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 3
V1 My son, do not forget my law.
Keep my commands in your heart.
V2 My commands will bring you long life.
They will bring you wealth....
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NAVEL. — As being the centre, and so the most important part of the
body. (Comp. the epithet applied to Delphi, “navel of the earth.”)
MARROW. — Literally, _watering: i.e.,_ refreshing. (Comp. Job
21...
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רִ֭פְאוּת תְּהִ֣י לְ שָׁרֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝
שִׁקּ֗וּי לְ עַצְמֹותֶֽיךָ׃...
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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...
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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...
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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),...
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It shall be health to thy (e) navel, and marrow to thy bones.
(e) By this part he comprehends the whole body, as by health he means
all the benefits promised in the law both corporal and spiritual....
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_Bones. Thou shalt enjoy perfect health._...
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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...
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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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IT SHALL BE HEALTH TO THY NAVEL,.... That part of the body which is
the knot of the intestines; and may be put for the bowels and inward
parts, which being sound, the body is in health; and these may...
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It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Ver. 8. _It shall be health to thy navel._] That is, Thou shalt be in
good plight both for the outward and inward man: Thy bones full of
marr...
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_Be not wise in thine own eyes_ Be not puffed up with a vain conceit
of thine own wisdom, as if that were sufficient for the conduct of all
thine affairs, without direction and assistance from God, or...
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OBEDIENCE, FAITH, AND LIBERALITY URGED...
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HEALTH:
_ Heb._ medicine
MARROW:
_ Heb._ watering, or moistening...
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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,...
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TO THY NAVEL, i.e. to thy body, which is signified by the navel, which
is a noble and useful part of the body, by which the infant receives
nourishment in the womb, and which is the ligament or bond b...
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Proverbs 3:8 health H7500 flesh H8270 strength H8250 bones H6106
shall - Proverbs 4:22, Proverbs 16:24; Psalms 147:3; Isaiah 1:6;
Jeremiah 30:12-13
health - Heb. medicine
thy - Ezekiel 16:4-5
marro...
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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...
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Proverbs 3:7
I. The text may be paraphrased and expanded thus: God has taught you
by various ways by your own experience and that of others; above all,
by the warnings of conscience and the voice of...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 16:4; Ezekiel 16:5; Isaiah 1:6; Jeremiah 30:12; Jeremiah
30:13; Job 21:24; Proverbs 16:24; Proverbs 4:22; Psalms 147:3...
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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...
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Navel — To thy body, which is signified by one part of it. Marrow
— Which is the nourishment and strength of the bones....