Verse Proverbs 24:13. _AND THE HONEY-COMB_] I have often had occasion to remark how much finer the flavour of honey is in the honey-comb than it is after it has been _expressed_ from it, and exposed...
Honey entered largely into the diet of Hebrew children Isaiah 7:15, so that it was as natural an emblem for the purest and simplest wisdom, as the “sincere milk of the word” was to the New Testament w...
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...
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...
MY SON. Confirming the Structure (p. 891)....
MY SON, EAT THOU HONEY, &C.— It is well known in how high esteem honey was among the ancients for food, for drink, for medicine, for preserving of dead bodies, and particularly for infants. See Isaiah...
TEXT Proverbs 24:13-22 13. My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste: 14. So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul; If thou ha...
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: EAT THOU HONEY, BECAUSE IT IS GOOD (A GRACIOUS INVITATION TO PARTAKE OF THE SPIRITUAL HONEY, ; PSALMS 19:...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
Honey was a valuable food. Other foods do not taste like honey. And honey is useful as a food and as a medicine. Wisdom is also special. Wisdom is precious. Sometimes we must study hard to become wis...
אֱכָל ־בְּנִ֣י דְבַ֣שׁ כִּי ־טֹ֑וב וְ נֹ֥פֶת
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...
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...
My son, eat thou (d) honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste: (d) As honey is sweet and pleasant to the taste, so wisdom is to the soul....
_Honey. Of wisdom, which is most delicious. (Menochius)_...
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that k...
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...
MY SON, EAT THOU HONEY, BECAUSE [IT IS] GOOD,.... It is good for food; there was plenty of it in Palestine, and it was eaten for food, not only by children, but grown persons; and was very nourishing,...
My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste: Ver. 13. _My son, eat thou honey, because it is good._] Profitable and pleasant, wholesome and toothsom...
_My son, eat thou honey_ This is not a command, but a concession, and is here expressed only to illustrate the following verse. Do not slight, much less nauseate, such precepts as these; but, as honey...
V. 13. MY SON, EAT THOU HONEY BECAUSE IT IS GOOD, AND THE HONEYCOMB, WHICH IS SWEET TO THY TASTE, this figurative admonition serving to introduce the praise of the loveliness and agreeableness of true...
This is not a command, but a concession, and is here expressed only to illustrate the following verse. Honey in those parts was excellent, and a usual and an acceptable food. See DEUTERONOMY 8:8 JUDGE...
Proverbs 24:13 son H1121 eat H398 (H8798) honey H1706 good H2896 honeycomb H5317 sweet H4966 taste H2441...
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...
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
_So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul._ SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE I. It is wholesome. “My son, eat thou honey, because it is good.” Honey was one of the choice productions of Canaan. It was us...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:14. THERE SHALL BE A REWARD, rather, “_there is a future_,” as in chap. Proverbs 23:18. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 24:13_ HONEY AND WISDOM I. An ana
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....
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...
Isaiah 7:15; Matthew 3:4; Proverbs 25:16; Proverbs 25:27;...
Eat — This is not a command, but a concession, and is only here expressed to illustrate the following verse. Honey in those parts was an usual food....