THE PROVERBS -Year from the Creation, 3004. -Year before the birth of Christ, 996. -Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 1000. -Year since the Deluge, according to Archbishop Usher and...
The long exhortation Proverbs 1–9, characterized by the frequent recurrence of the words “my son,” is of the nature of a preface to the collection of the “Proverbs of Solomon” Proverbs 10:1. On Prover...
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....
OF. Genitive of Relation (App-17), being the title or heading of the whole book, some being "for" him; others "by" him. If not, why the words of Proverbs 10:1. Chapter s Proverbs 10:19; Proverbs 10:19...
The Title. Chap. Proverbs 1:1 1. _proverbs_ Properly _resemblances_. Here used of (1) short, pithy sentences, either couched in the form of a similitude, or comparison, or gathering up under their com...
THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON— Solomon is the first of the sacred writers whose name appears at the head of his works. The name alone of so wise and so great a prince, is a sufficient recommendation to enga...
CHAPTER 1 TEXT Proverbs 1:1-9 1. The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: 2. To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; 3. To receive instruction in...
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; Proverbs 1:1.-The Inscription; and the Preface, stating the design of the book-to give instruction in wisdom (Proverbs 1:1). Key-note of th...
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...
Solomon wrote both proverbs (wise words) and songs. In all, he collected 3000 proverbs (1 Kings 4:29-34). The Book of Proverbs contains many of them. This book teaches us how we should live. It explai...
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...
1. — INTRODUCTION DESCRIBING THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK (Proverbs 1:1). (1) PROVERBS. — For the various senses of the Hebrew _mâshâl_ thus translated, see Introduction. SOLOMON. — The absolute quiet and...
מִ֭שְׁלֵי שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה בֶן ־דָּוִ֑ד מֶ֝֗לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃...
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;...
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; The Argument - The wonderful love of God toward his Church is declared in this book: for as much as the sum and effect of the whole Scriptures...
_Israel. The dignity of the author, and the importance of the subject, invite us to read. (St. Basil) --- Solomon is the first whose name is placed at the head of any work in Scripture. (Calmet)_...
CONTENTS. The general design of parables is here described. A number of select maxims are given, and the object of the whale volume is set forth in shewing that it is to bring men acquainted with Gad...
_THE HEBREW WISDOM_ ‘The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel.’ Proverbs 1:1 The Book of the Proverbs of Solomon is a collection, under the guidance of inspiration, of the short say...
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...
THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON,.... Who is said to make three thousand proverbs, 1 Kings 4:32; but whether any of them are contained in this book cannot be said: however, it is certain that they are not all...
_The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;_ Ver. 1. _The Proverbs._] Or, Master sentences; maxims, axioms, speeches of special precellence and predominance; received rules _a_ that mu...
_The proverbs of Solomon_ “Solomon is the first of the sacred writers whose name appears at the head of his works. The name alone of so wise and so great a prince is a sufficient recommendation to eng...
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, 1 Kings 1:39; 1 Kings 2:12, a proverb, in this connection, designating a maxim or aphorism rather than a popular proverbial saying;...
THE TITLE AND THE INTRODUCTION...
1-6 The lessons here given are plain, and likely to benefit those who feel their own ignorance, and their need to be taught. If young people take heed to their ways, according to Solomon's Proverbs, t...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 1 The use of the proverbs, PROVERBS 1:1 . An exhortation to fear God, and believe his word, PROVERBS 1:7 . The glory of those children that obey the instruction of their parents, Prov...
Proverbs 1:1 proverbs H4912 Solomon H8010 son H1121 David H1732 king H4428 Israel H3478 proverbs -...
INTRODUCTION TO THE PROLOGUE (PROVERBS 1:1). The book commences with an introduction which explains its purpose in some depth. Its aim is to pass on ‘the sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of...
Proverbs 1:1 It might seem at first as if no precepts of this kind, drawn from the experience of a social state most unlike our own, could be of much service to us. But much that is true of man at any...
Proverbs 1:1 The Book of the Proverbs of Solomon is a collection, under the guidance of inspiration, of the short sayings of wise and pious men which up to that time had been more or less current, wit...
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...
_The proverbs of Solomon._ THE BOOK OF PROVERBS 1. The book does not consist of proverbs entirely. Much of it is the language of pious exhortation and spiritual precept. 2. The book contains many w...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 1:1. PROVERBS. See Introduction. PROVERBS 1:2. INSTRUCTION, properly “chastisement,” signifying moral training, admonition, then good habits, the practical side of wisdom....
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...
1 Chronicles 22:9; 1 Chronicles 28:5; 1 Chronicles 29:28; 1 Kings 2:12;...
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...
How could Solomon’s writings be part of the Scripture since 1 Kings 11:6 said Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord? PROBLEM: Solomon began his reign as a man who loved the Lord (1 Kings 3:3). Lat...