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Verse Proverbs 20:18. _WITH GOOD ADVICE MAKE WAR,_] Perhaps there is
not a precept in this whole book so little regarded as this. Most of
the _wars_ that are undertaken are wars of injustice, ambitio...
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CHAPTER 20 PROVERBS AS TO PERSONAL CONDUCT
Proverbs of warning and instructions as to personal conduct are found
mostly in this chapter; a number of them are of special interest if
applied to Solomon....
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PROVERBS 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9; Proverbs
20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self
characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thought.
P...
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_with good advice_ or, _by wise guidance_, R.V., _make war_. Comp.
Luke 14:31-32....
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TEXT Proverbs 20:11-20
11.
Even a child maketh himself known by his doings,
Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
12.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
Jehovah hath made even bot...
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1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man
sneer, quarrel and reel about....
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Be careful when you make an important decision!
When a king goes to war, people will die. He must not decide to go to
war while he is angry. He must think carefully. He must obtain good
advice, from...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 20
V1 Wine is like a man who insults you. Beer is like a man who shouts
at you.
If wine and beer tempt you, then you are not wise....
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מַ֭חֲשָׁבֹות בְּ עֵצָ֣ה תִכֹּ֑ון וּ֝
בְ תַחְב
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CHAPTER 17
A JUST BALANCE
"A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag
are His work."- Proverbs 16:11
"A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is...
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CHAPTER 21
IDLENESS
"After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in
the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4
WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimpse of t...
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“THE GLORY OF YOUNG MEN”
Proverbs 20:16-30
What a wonderful thought is given in Proverbs 20:27! We stand like a
row of unlighted candles until God's Spirit kindles us. Has the Divine
Nature ever bent...
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Verse Proverbs 20:9. This is the eternal challenge which has but one
answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour.
Verse Proverbs 20:14. "It is bad, it is bad," is the descrip...
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_Governments. Or prudence, else the best designs may prove abortive._...
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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou
shalt be satisfied with bread. It is naught, it is naught, saith the
buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. There is...
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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
followe...
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[EVERY] PURPOSE IS ESTABLISHED BY COUNSEL,.... Or "the thought" f of a
man, everyone of them, what he has thought to do, formed a scheme of
in his mind, and resolved upon, by taking advice of his frie...
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Proverbs 20:18 _[Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with
good advice make war._
Ver. 18. _Every purpose is established by counsel._] That thy
proceedings be not either unconstant or un...
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_Every purpose is established by counsel_ “Rashness spoils the best
designs, which must be carried on prudently, and with good advice, if
we would have them to prove successful.” _And with good advice...
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V. 18. EVERY PURPOSE IS ESTABLISHED BY COUNSEL, definite plans should
be formulated only after a careful consultation with such as are in a
position to advise; AND WITH GOOD ADVICE MAKE WAR, after con...
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EVERY PURPOSE IS ESTABLISHED BY COUNSEL; the way to bring our purposes
and desires to a good effect, is to manage them with serious
consideration and good advice. _And_; or, _therefore_. This is
neces...
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Proverbs 20:18 Plans H4284 established H3559 (H8735) counsel H6098
counsel H8458 wage H6213 (H8798) war...
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CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions regarding the ways of folly.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Here in this imperfect state, no person can claim to be
sinless, but the just man, walking by the rule o...
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Proverbs 20:1. _Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging._ In the book
of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with
harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1. Cyrus, after notic...
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_Every purpose is established by counsel._
COUNSEL
“Of all apostolic habits the most habitual,” writes arehbishop
Benson, “was the usage of counsel. The upper chamber, the house, the
home of Mary, Je...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 20:18. The first clause may be read, _Establish thy purpose
by counsel_.
PROVERBS 20:19. “HIM THAT FLATTERETH.” Rather, _him that openeth
wide his lips, i.e._, the babbler....
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 20:1
WINE IS A MOCKER; or, scorner, the word (_luts_) being taken up from
the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing
what men do under its influence. Thus...
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Into chapter 20.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise (Proverbs 20:1).
He will have more to say about wine as we move along in our study next
week,...
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2 Chronicles 25:17; 2 Samuel 2:26; 2 Samuel 2:27; Judges 1:1; Judges
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Established — The way to bring our purposes to good effect is to
manage them with serious consideration....