Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Proverbs 1:16
for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood, wherefore all godly people will shun the pathway of crime.
for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood, wherefore all godly people will shun the pathway of crime.
Verse Proverbs 1:16. _FOR THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL_] The whole of this verse is wanting in the _Septuagint_, and in the _Arabic_....
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 int...
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....
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....
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....
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...
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 SHE...
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. I...
THE THIEVES’ PLAN In Solomon’s story, a band of thieves have a cruel plan. The thieves ask a young man to join them. Together, they will attack someone else. They will steal from him, and murder him...
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...
FOR THEIR FEET... — The first reason against taking part with them: the horrible nature of the crime they are committing....
כִּ֣י רַ֭גְלֵיהֶם לָ † רַ֣ע יָר֑וּצוּ וִֽ֝...
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...
“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 more...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
Proverbs 1:16 feet H7272 run H7323 (H8799) evil H7451 haste H4116 (H8762) shed H8210 (H8800) blood...
THE COMPELLING NEED TO AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED (PROVERBS 1:10). Solomon now vividly portrays the dangers of greed and violence, two things which often go together. The one...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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) an
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...
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 of...
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...
Isaiah 59:7; Proverbs 4:16; Proverbs 6:18; Romans 3:5...
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 thee...