Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 16:33
The lot — As the ancient practice was in deciding doubtful things. The event of which though casual to men, is directed by God's providence.
The lot — As the ancient practice was in deciding doubtful things. The event of which though casual to men, is directed by God's providence.
Verse Proverbs 16:33. _THE LOT IS CAST INTO THE LAP_] On the _lot_, Numbers 26:55. How far it may be proper _now_ to put difficult matters to the lot, after earnest prayer and supplication, I cannot...
DISPOSING - Better, the judgment or sentence which depends upon the lot. The lots were thrown into the gathered folds of a robe, and then drawn out. Where everything seemed the merest chance, there th...
CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart; b...
PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
LOT. stone. See next note. LAP. bosom (Proverbs 17:23; Proverbs 21:14). The reference is to the bag of the ephod, in which were the two stones by which Jehovah gave true judgment or decision. See note...
_the lap_ from the folds of which it was drawn or shaken out. _disposing_ Lit. JUDGEMENT. The decision, which when appealed to as arbiter it pronounces, is not its own but Jehovah's. The religion of...
DISCOURSE: 795 GOD IS THE DISPOSER OF ALL EVENTS Proverbs 16:33. _The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord_. THOUGH we would not be unnecessarily fastidious in con...
THE LOT IS CAST INTO THE LAP— Lots are to be considered in three different lights; or, more properly, they are of three distinct kinds. One sort is civil ballotting, of general use in states to preven...
TEXT Proverbs 16:23-33 23. The heart of the wise instructeth his mouth, And addeth learning to his lips. 24. Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. 25....
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD. THE LOT IS CAST INTO THE LAP; BUT THE WHOLE DISPOSING (LITERALLY, JUDGMENT) THEREOF IS OF THE LORD. Whatever happens to...
The lot was put in the folds of the garment and then shaken out (Judges 1:3; Isaiah 34:17, etc.)....
1-9. God's control of human life....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s, the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil action...
In the Bible, people sometimes made decisions by lot (that is, by a game of chance). Jesus had 12 disciples (special students). One of these was Judas, who helped to arrest Jesus. Then Judas killed h...
THE LOT IS CAST INTO THE LAP... — In other words, much that we attribute to chance is due to the providence of God. (Comp. Matthew 10:29.) This should be an encouragement to trust in Him....
בַּ֭ † חֵיק יוּטַ֣ל אֶת ־הַ גֹּורָ֑ל...
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 H...
Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
The lot is cast into the lap; but its whole disposing [is] (p) from the LORD. (p) So that there is nothing that ought to be attributed to fortune: for all things are determined in the counsel of God...
CHAPTER XVI. Lord. So the apostles had recourse to them, (Acts i. 26.) as the Cophts[Copts?] and Nestorians still do when there is a dispute about the election of a patriarch. (Renaudot iv. Perpet. i...
REFLECTIONS READER! I cannot better direct both your heart and my own, to a suitable subject for the Lord to bless to our joint reflections, than what this chapter, both at the opening and close, brin...
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth trans...
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...
THE LOT IS CAST INTO THE LAP,.... Of a man's garment, or into his bosom, or into a hat, cap, urn, or whatsoever he has in his lap, and from whence it is taken out; which used to be done in choosing of...
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof [is] of the LORD. Ver. 33. _The lot is cast into the lap._] This sentence at first sight seems light and unworthy of the place it holds i...
_The lot is cast into the lap_ As the ancient practice was in dividing inheritances, and deciding in doubtful cases; _but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord_ The event, though casual to men, i...
V. 33. THE LOT IS CAST INTO THE LAP, apparently at random; BUT THE WHOLE DISPOSING THEREOF IS OF THE LORD, the decision rests with Him, for even those events which seem to us most fortuitous and subje...
THE LOT IS CAST INTO THE LAP; as the ancient practice was in dividing inheritances, and deciding doubtful things, of which see Numbers 26:55 Joshua 7:16 1 Samuel 10:20,21...
Proverbs 16:33 lot H1486 cast H2904 (H8714) lap H2436 decision H4941 LORD H3068...
SOLOMON CONTRASTS THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE PERVERSE AND WORTHLESS MAN WITH THE LIFE AND ATTITUDES OF THE MAN GROWN OLD IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHO IS AN EXEMPLAR OF ALL THE RIGHTEOUS (PROVERBS 16:30 TO PROVERBS...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in it....
Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
_The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord._ ALL CONTINGENCIES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GOD’S PROVIDENCE I. Consider the result of a “lot” in reference to men. Why su...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:10 The remaining sections of ch. Proverbs 16:1 illustrate the benefits of wisdom for the well-being of the heart (vv....
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 16:33_ THE LOT AND ITS DISPOSER I. THERE IS A SPECIAL PROVIDENCE OF GOD IN THE MIDST OF HIS UNIVERSAL GOVERNMENT. In nature there is a manifestation of a universal Provid...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or a...
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin our study this evening. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1). Go...
1 Samuel 14:41; 1 Samuel 14:42; Acts 1:26; Jonah 1:7; Joshua 18:10;...