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Verse Proverbs 4:5. _GET WISDOM_] True religion is essential to thy
happiness; never _forget_ its teachings, nor go _aside_ from the path
it prescribes....
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The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father.
Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles
29:17;...
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CHAPTER 4
_ 1. Solomon's training (Proverbs 4:1)_
2. Hear, O my son: Receive my sayings (Proverbs 4:10)
3. My son, attend to my words. (Proverbs 4:20)...
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GET WISDOM: Proverbs 4:6 tells how to do it.
IT. her.
WORDS. sayings. Hebrew. _imrah._ See App-73....
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Seventh Address. Chap. Proverbs 4:1-9
Resuming, after the parenthesis (Proverbs 3:27-35) the style and tone
of fatherly address of the preceding sections, the Teacher commends
Wisdom to his scholars...
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CHAPTER 4
TEXT Proverbs 4:1-9
1.
Hear my sons, the instruction of a father,
And attend to know understanding:
2.
For I give you good doctrine;
Forsake ye not my law.
3.
For I was a son unto my...
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Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from
the words of my mouth.
GET WISDOM, GET UNDERSTANDING. "Get" - Hebrew, acquire or buy, like a
merchant, sparing neither toil nor c...
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ANCESTRAL WISDOM. THE TWO PATHS
In Proverbs 4:1 the teacher lays stress on the fact that his
instruction is a repetition of his father's. No teaching was thought
valuable save that which was handed do...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 4
V1 My sons, listen to your father’s instruction.
As you listen to me, you will understand more....
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This poem is not just about Solomon’s family. It is about all
families. It tells us that a father should teach his son. When he
grows older, the son should teach his own children.
Solomon’s family wa...
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At last, we hear the advice. This is the lesson that grandfather
taught. We must learn to be wise.
As in earlier Chapter s, he compares wisdom to a woman. Wisdom, like a
woman, deserves our love. Lik...
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GET WISDOM, GET UNDERSTANDING. — Like the pearl of great price
(Matthew 13:46)....
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קְנֵ֣ה חָ֭כְמָה קְנֵ֣ה בִינָ֑ה אַל
־תִּשְׁכַּ֥ח...
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CHAPTER 5
EDUCATION: THE CHILD'S THOUGHT OF THE PARENT
"Wisdom doth live with children round her knees." - Wordsworth.
"He taught me, and said unto me," etc. Proverbs 4:4
THIS chapter begins with a...
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THE COUNSELS OF EXPERIENCE.
Proverbs 3:27-35; Proverbs 4:1-9
Here are many duties! _Be generous!_ Of course we must discriminate-
_to whom it is due;_ and we must be prudent- _when it is in the powe...
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In this chapter there are three addresses. The first is of the nature
of personal testimony (verses Pro 4:1-9). The next two are
exhortations to fidelity (verses Pro 4:10-27). The father urges his
own...
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For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my
mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my
words: keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom, get unde...
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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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GET WISDOM, GET UNDERSTANDING,.... Not only moral and political wisdom
and understanding, but that which is spiritual and evangelical;
Christ, and the knowledge of him; he being the only happy man tha...
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_Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from
the words of my mouth._
Ver. 5. _Get wisdom, get understanding._] _Compara sapientiam,
compara intelligentiam_ - so Chrysostom. _...
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_He taught me also, and said unto me_ The following verses, at least
as far as the tenth, are represented as containing the words of David,
Solomon's father, that the name of so great a king, and so h...
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1-13 We must look upon our teachers as our fathers: though
instruction carry in it reproof and correction, bid it welcome.
Solomon's parents loved him, therefore taught him. Wise and godly men,
in ev...
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From the belief and practice of my word....
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Proverbs 4:5 Get H7069 (H8798) wisdom H2451 Get H7069 (H8798)
understanding H998 forget H7911 (H8799) away...
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AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REMINISCENCE OF WHAT HIS FATHER HAD TAUGHT HIM AS
‘A SON' (PROVERBS 4:3).
Solomon now stresses that his wisdom has partly come down to him from
his father. This greatly added to it...
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Proverbs 4:5
I. Solomon himself received wisdom from Divine inspiration. Now no
supernatural supply of wisdom can be vouchsafed to us. There is no
limit to the moral improvement which God's Spirit may...
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CONTENTS: Earnest exhortation to the study of true wisdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: True wisdom from God is the principle thing. It is that
which recommends us to God, which be...
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Proverbs 4:1. _Hear, ye children,_ a Hebraism, equivalent to wash,
cleanse, and purify your ears. A grateful son here recites the
domestic piety of an illustrious father. David talked much with his
ch...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
PROVERBS 4:8. EXALT or “esteem.”
PROVERBS 4:9. Last clause, or “she shall compass thee with a crown
of glory.”
PROVERBS 4:10. As is all other instances (see Notes on Chap....
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 4:1
7. _Seventh admonitory discourse. _We here enter upon the second group
of admonitory discourses, as is indicated by the opening address, "my
children," and which occurs again...
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Continuing to his son.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you
might know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, don't forsake
my law. For I was my father's son, ten...
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2 Chronicles 34:2; James 1:5; Job 23:11; Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 1:23;
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SACRED EXHORTATIONS
Proverbs 4:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
It is well, now and then, to step aside and consider what God has to
say to young men and women; as well as to consider what He says to
their fath...