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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 wor...
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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 RICH...
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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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The writer describes a fine house. Perhaps the house is really a
palace, because the house has rare and beautiful objects. This house
can be like our lives.
A house is safe if its builder was skilled...
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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
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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 ־הֹ֖ו
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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
followe...
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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...
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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 g
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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
pri...
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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
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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....
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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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By knowledge — Which in scripture phrase includes the love and
practice of what we know....