And they lay wait. — Yet they cannot see that in truth they are laying wait, not for the innocent, but for themselves, as God will deliver him, and bring the mischief they designed for him upon their own head.
Verse Proverbs 1:18. _THEY LAY WAIT FOR THEIR_ OWN _BLOOD_] I believe it is the _innocent_ who are spoken of here, for whose _blood_ and _lives_ these _lay wait_ and _lurk privily_; certainly not thei...
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....
LIVES. souls. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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...
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. AND THEY LAY WAIT FOR THEIR (OWN) BLOOD; THEY LURK PRIVILY FOR THEIR (OWN) LIVES. While they fancy that they are, with...
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 truth is this. The thieves also intend to kill the young man. This means that the thieves will keep all the money. Solomon’s story teaches us about evil behaviour. An evil life is not fun. It is...
וְ֭ הֵם לְ דָמָ֣ם יֶאֱרֹ֑בוּ יִ֝צְפְּנ֗וּ לְ
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;...
And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for (o) their [own] lives. (o) He shows that there is no reason to move these wicked to spoil the innocent, aside from their malice and crue...
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...
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...
AND THEY LAY WAIT FOR THEIR [OWN] BLOOD,.... While they lie in wait for the blood of others, they lie in wait for their own; and when they shed the blood of innocent persons, it in the issue comes upo...
And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives. Ver. 18. _And they lay wait._] Their sin will surely find them out. "No doubt this man is a murderer," said those bar...
_And they lay wait_, &c. Assure thyself, such men are working their own ruin, and, as it were, lying in wait for themselves, when they lie in wait to take away the lives of others; for, in the end, th...
A FUNDAMENTAL TRAIT OF WISDOM IS THE AVOIDANCE OF WICKEDNESS...
And they lay wait for their own blood, it is their own lives which are finally taken, either on account of treachery in their own ranks or because murder will be punished at last; THEY LURK PRIVILY FO...
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...
AND, or _but_, or _yet_, or _so_; for all these ways this particle is used; which is more fully expressed in the next verse. THEY LAY WAIT FOR THEIR OWN BLOOD; the destruction which they design to oth...
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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...
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
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:17 A BIRD that sees a fowler spreading a NET is aware of the trap and will flee the danger rather than take the bait. However, those who seek to trap the innocent overlook...
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...
Esther 7:10; Matthew 27:4; Matthew 27:5; Proverbs 28:17; Proverbs 5:22
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...
Their own blood — The destruction which they design to others, fall upon themselves....