Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 5:16
Wedded love streams forth in blessing on all around, on children and on neighbors and ill the streets, precisely because the wife’s true love is given to the husband only.
Wedded love streams forth in blessing on all around, on children and on neighbors and ill the streets, precisely because the wife’s true love is given to the husband only.
Verse Proverbs 5:16. _LET THY FOUNTAINS BE DISPERSED ABROAD_] Let thy children lawfully begotten be numerous....
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Shun the strange woman and sinful passion (Proverbs 5:1)_ 2. The life of chastity (Proverbs 5:15) Proverbs 5:1. It is a warning against literal fornication and the accompanying spirit...
PROVERBS 5:1; PROVERBS 5:10; PROVERBS 5:20. Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and...
LET THY FOUNTAINS. Septuagint reads "Let not thy fountain", &c. This must be the sense from the context. The Revised Version obtains it by. question, "Should thy fountain... ?". FOUNTAINS. Plural of...
The remedy against sin is to be found in the holy estate which God has ordained. "The resemblance between the two Books (the Song of Solomon and the Book of Proverbs) in their treatment of this subjec...
_Let thy fountains_ This rendering (retained in R.V. marg.) gives a good sense: purity of married life (Proverbs 5:15) will diffuse itself abroad like streams from a fountain, in a numerous family, an...
TEXT Proverbs 5:15-23 15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. 16. Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets? 17....
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. LET THY FOUNTAINS BE DISPERSED ABROAD, (AND) RIVERS OF WATERS IN THE STREETS - i:e., by being faithful to thine own wife...
5:16 fountains (l-2) Ver. 16 as ch. 8.24; ver. 18 as ch. 10.11....
UNHOLY PASSION. HALLOWED LOVE A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss of honour, property, life, oppo...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 5 Chapter 5 is a poem. The poem has two subjects: 1. A married woman tempts a man who is not her husband. 2. Evil things are like this woman,...
Here, Solomon talks about water. In dry countries, water is valuable. Clean water is very precious. You should not waste water. It should not flow into the streets. It should not pour out, into the to...
(15-20) DRINK WATERS OUT OF THINE OWN CISTERN... — In these verses Solomon urges his disciples to follow after purity in the married life; he pictures in vivid terms the delights which it affords as c...
יָפ֣וּצוּ מַעְיְנֹתֶ֣יךָ ח֑וּצָה בָּ֝ † רְחֹבֹ֗ות פַּלְגֵי
CHAPTER 6 THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN "His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his fo...
This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural t...
Waters. Mayst thou have a numerous offspring, (ver. 10.) and be liberal. Many copies of the Septuagint, &c., have a negation, with Aquila, "let not thy," &c., (Calmet) though it my be read with and in...
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strange...
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...
LET THY FOUNTAINS BE DISPERSED ABROAD,.... Or "shall abound", as the Targum; that is, streams of water from fountains; which Aben Ezra interprets of a multitude of children, namely, that are lawfully...
_Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets._ Ver. 16. _Let thy fountains be dispersed._] "Thy fountains," that is, thy children. Let thine end in marrying be, that...
_Let thy fountains_ Rather, _thy streams_, as Dr. Waterland renders the word, that is, thy children, proceeding from thy wife, called _thy fountain, Proverbs 5:18_, and from thyself; _be dispersed abr...
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad and rivers of waters in the streets, in the proper enjoyment of marital love....
CHASTITY CONTRASTED WITH UNCHASTITY...
15-23 Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these destructive vices. But we are not properly united, except as we attend to God's word, seeking his direction and blessing, and act...
THY FOUNTAINS; thy children proceeding from thy wife, called _thy fountain_, PROVERBS 5:18, and from thyself, as the Israelites are said to come from the fountain of Israel, Deuteronomy 33:28 Psalms 6...
Proverbs 5:16 fountains H4599 dispersed H6327 (H8799) abroad H2351 Streams H6388 water H4325 streets H7339 thy -...
SOLOMON CALLS ON HIS SON TO BE FAITHFUL TO HIS TRUE WIFE, AND TO OBTAIN HIS SEXUAL ENJOYMENTS FROM HER (PROVERBS 5:15). In contrast Solomon now brings home to ‘his son' (Proverbs 5:20) the joys of sex...
CONTENTS: Caution against the sin of whoredom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: We ought industriously to avoid everything that might be an occasion of the sin of adultery or a step to...
Proverbs 5:3. _The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb._ She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woman....
_Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad._ THE CHILDREN OF MARRIAGE Streams of children. Unlawful intercourse is often barren. I. Children of lawful marriage are like rivers. 1. In plenty. God’s ble...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 5:15 The wife is pictured as a source of water (WELL, FOUNTAIN, etc.). The man who is tempted to commit adultery should think about how he would feel if his wife were to do t...
_ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19_ Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures those gazelles are, and how gracefully they bound. We...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 5:1 8. _Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. _The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced at before in...
Now my son, attend unto my wisdom, bow your ear to my understanding: That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge (Proverbs 5:1; Proverbs 5:2). And now he's going to warn his...
Deuteronomy 33:28; Genesis 24:60; Isaiah 48:21; Judges 12:9; Psal
Fountains — Thy children proceeding from thy wife and from thyself. Fountains are here put for rivers flowing from them. Dispersed — They shall in due time appear abroad to thy comfort, and for the go...