Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 1:10
The first great danger which besets the simple and the young is that of evil companionship. The only safety is to be found in the power of saying “No,” to all such invitations.
The first great danger which besets the simple and the young is that of evil companionship. The only safety is to be found in the power of saying “No,” to all such invitations.
Verse Proverbs 1:10. _IF SINNERS ENTICE THEE, CONSENT THOU NOT._] אל תבא _al_ _tobe, WILL-not_. They can do thee no harm unless thy will join in with them. God's eternal purpose with respect to man i...
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....
SINNERS. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. CONSENT THOU NOT: Illustrations: Joseph (Genesis 39:9; Genesis 39:10); prophet (1 Kings 13:8; 1 King
The Teacher passes from Appeal to Warning: Against Evil Companions. Chap. 1. Proverbs 1:10 10. _sinners_ The warning points to a state of society of which indications are to be found not only in the u...
TEXT - Proverbs 1:10-19 10. My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. 11. If they say, Come with us, Let us lay in wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; 12...
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. MY SON, IF SINNERS ENTICE THEE, CONSENT THOU NOT. So Joseph (, etc.; )....
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...
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...
THE THIEVES’ PLAN In Solomon’s story, a band of thieves have a cruel plan. The thieves ask a young man to join them. Together, they will attack someone else. They will steal from him, and murder him...
IF SINNERS ENTICE THEE. — A warning against taking part in brigandage, a crime to which Palestine was at all times peculiarly exposed, from the wild character of its formation, and from its neighbourh...
בְּנִ֡י אִם ־יְפַתּ֥וּךָ חַ֝טָּאִ֗ים אַל ־תֹּבֵֽא׃...
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;...
My son, (i) if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. (i) That is, the wicked who do not have the fear of God....
_Entice. Hebrew, "deceive." (Calmet) --- Pessimum inimicorum genus laudantes. (Tacitus, in vit. Agric.)_...
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. My son, if sinners entice thee, cons...
_‘YIELD NOT TO TEMPTATION’_ ‘My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.’ Proverbs 1:10 There are two chief sources of temptation which Solomon indicates in these Chapter s, and which, when w...
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...
MY SON, IF SINNERS ENTICE THEE,.... Endeavour to seduce thee from thy parents, and draw thee aside from them, from listening to their instructions, advice, and commands; and make use of all plausible...
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Ver. 10. _If sinners entice thee._] To an ill bargain; to a match of mischief, as Ahab did Jehoshaphat, as Potiphar's wife would have done Joseph; an...
_My son, if sinners_ Sinners of any description; _entice thee _ To sin, to commit any known iniquity, or to omit any known duty; _consent thou not_ Yield not in any degree to their advice, persuasions...
My son, if sinners, habitual transgressors of the law, criminals, ENTICE THEE, literally, "open the way," making it seem inviting and alluring, CONSENT THOU NOT, an outright refusal being the only way...
A FUNDAMENTAL TRAIT OF WISDOM IS THE AVOIDANCE OF WICKEDNESS...
10-19 Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Co...
SINNERS; eminently so called, as GENESIS 13:13 PSALMS 1:1, PSALMS 26:9; such as sell themselves to work all manner of wickedness; particularly thieves, and robbers, and murderers, as appears from the...
Proverbs 1:10 son H1121 sinners H2400 entice H6601 (H8762) consent H14 (H8799) Consent - 3's H30006...
DISCOURSE 1. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. THOSE WHO SEEK TO WALK IN THE FEAR OF YHWH WILL LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTION OF GODLY AUTHORITY, AND WILL AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED. WISDOM I...
THE COMPELLING NEED TO AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED (PROVERBS 1:10). Solomon now vividly portrays the dangers of greed and violence, two things which often go together. The one...
PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK (PROVERBS 1:8 TO PROVERBS 9:18). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the ‘sayings' that wo...
PROLOGUE TO THE BOOK (PROVERBS 1:8 TO PROVERBS 9:18). It was common throughout the 3rd to the 1st millenniums BC for collections of wisdom saying to have a prologue preparing for the ‘sayings' that wo...
Proverbs 1:10 There are two chief sources of temptation which Solomon indicates in these Chapter s, and which, when we have stripped off the figure or the accidental circumstances of age and time, ar...
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...
_My son, if sinners entice thee._ REASONS FOR RESISTING THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS By sinners is meant all persons who are not true Christians. Three reasons why we should not consent when sinners e...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:8 A Father’s Invitation to Wisdom. This section describes the two paths implied in Proverbs 1:7: the wise (grounded in the fear of the Lord) an
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 1:10. ENTICE THEE, “lay thee open.” Miller here reads “if sinners would make a door of thy simplicity, afford thou no entrance.” PROVERBS 1:17. Some interpret this verse as...
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...
Ephesians 5:11; Genesis 39:7; Judges 16:16; Proverbs 13:20;...
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...