Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 24:21
Them that are given to change - Those that seek to set aside the worship of the true God, or the authority of the true king, who represents Him.
Them that are given to change - Those that seek to set aside the worship of the true God, or the authority of the true king, who represents Him.
Verse Proverbs 24:21. _MY SON, FEAR THOU THE LORD AND THE KING_] Pay to each the homage due: to the LORD, Divine honour and adoration; to the _king_, civil respect, civil honour, and political obedien...
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...
MEDDLE NOT. mingle not, i.e. have nothing to do with. THEM THAT ARE GIVEN TO CHANGE. with them that make. difference [between. wicked king and. wicked common man]....
_given to change_ i.e. are of a revolutionary and subversive spirit, whether in religion or in politics....
MY SON FEAR THOU THE LORD, &C.— The LXX, read, _My son, fear God and the king; and be not disobedient to either of them:_ Proverbs 24:22 _for they shall suddenly avenge the wicked; but the punishments...
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, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change: FEAR THOU LORD AND THE KING - the Lord first, then the king, in so far as he is representative of God, a...
5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'...
God is like a king. God will punish his enemies. You might escape from an angry king. But you cannot escape from God’s anger. So do not be an enemy of God. God wants you to confess your evil actions....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 24 V1 Do not be jealous of evil men. Do not try to meet them. V2
THEM THAT ARE GIVEN TO CHANGE. — Perhaps rather, _those who think differently. _...
יְרָֽא ־אֶת ־יְהוָ֣ה בְּנִ֣י וָ מֶ֑לֶךְ עִם
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...
_Detractors. Or those who speak ill of God or the king. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "that are given to change," (Haydock) and relapses._...
Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. My son, fear thou the LORD and the...
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, FEAR THOU THE LORD, AND THE KING,.... First the Lord, and then the king; and such as fear the Lord are generally loyal to their king; the fear of God includes love to him, reverence of him, fa...
My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: [and] meddle not with them that are given to change: Ver. 21. _My son, fear the Lord and the king._] "Who would not fear thee, O king of nations? for unto the...
_My son, fear thou the Lord and the king_ Honour and obey both God and the king, and all in authority. He properly puts God before the king, because God is to be served in the first place, and our obe...
V. 21. MY SON, FEAR THOU THE LORD AND THE KING, the government established by Jehovah, 1 Peter 2:17; Romans 13:1, AND MEDDLE NOT WITH THEM THAT ARE GIVEN TO CHANGE, those who are always dissatisfied w...
THEM THAT ARE GIVEN TO CHANGE: _ Heb._ changers...
FEAR THOU THE LORD AND THE KING; honour and obey both God and the king, and all in authority. He puts God before the king, because God is to be served in the first place, and our obedience is to be gi...
Proverbs 24:21 son H1121 fear H3372 (H8798) LORD H3068 king H4428 associate H6148 (H8691) change H8138 ...
FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
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
_My son, fear thou the Lord and the king._ DUTY TO GOD AND THE KING I. A double duty laid down. Or rather, a single duty, one included and comprehended in the other. Fear here is a comprehensive not...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 24:21 Both God and the Davidic KING appear in Proverbs 1:1 as agents of wrath (see...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 24:21. GIVEN TO CHANGE, literally _otherwise disposed_, or, according to Miller, _repeaters, turners back_. PROVERBS 24:22. THE RUIN OF THEM BOTH, etc. This phrase is variou...
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...
1 Kings 12:16; 1 Peter 2:13; 1 Samuel 12:12; 1 Samuel 24:6; 1
To change — That are unstable in their obedience to God or to the king....