Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Proverbs 4:4
He (b) taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
(b) Meaning, David his father.
He (b) taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
(b) Meaning, David his father.
Verse Proverbs 4:4. _HE TAUGHT ME ALSO, AND SAID_] Open thy heart to receive my instructions-receive them with affection; when heard, retain and practise them; and thou shalt live-the great purpose of...
The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17;...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Solomon's training (Proverbs 4:1)_ 2. Hear, O my son: Receive my sayings (Proverbs 4:10) 3. My son, attend to my words. (Proverbs 4:20)...
KEEP. Take heed to. LIVE: i.e. live again, in resurrection life. See note on Leviticus 18:5. Earthly life could he enjoyed without keeping commandments....
_he taught me also_ Rather, AND HE TAUGHT ME, R.V....
Seventh Address. Chap. Proverbs 4:1-9 Resuming, after the parenthesis (Proverbs 3:27-35) the style and tone of fatherly address of the preceding sections, the Teacher commends Wisdom to his scholars...
CHAPTER 4 TEXT Proverbs 4:1-9 1. Hear my sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding: 2. For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law. 3. For I was a son unto my...
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. HE TAUGHT ME ALSO, SAID UNTO ME, LET THINE HEART RETAIN MY WORDS: KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, AND LIV...
ANCESTRAL WISDOM. THE TWO PATHS In Proverbs 4:1 the teacher lays stress on the fact that his instruction is a repetition of his father's. No teaching was thought valuable save that which was handed do...
This poem is not just about Solomon’s family. It is about all families. It tells us that a father should teach his son. When he grows older, the son should teach his own children. Solomon’s family wa...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 4 V1 My sons, listen to your father’s instruction. As you listen to me, you will understand more....
The grandfather began his lessons in the same way as the poet. The grandfather also emphasised that the lesson was important. Today, many people say that things are important. A salesman will say tha...
HE TAUGHT ME ALSO. — Comp. David’s advice to Solomon (l Chron. 28:9, 10)....
וַ יֹּרֵ֗נִי וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר לִ֗י יִֽתְמָךְ ־דְּב
CHAPTER 5 EDUCATION: THE CHILD'S THOUGHT OF THE PARENT "Wisdom doth live with children round her knees." - Wordsworth. "He taught me, and said unto me," etc. Proverbs 4:4 THIS chapter begins with a...
THE COUNSELS OF EXPERIENCE. Proverbs 3:27-35; Proverbs 4:1-9 Here are many duties! _Be generous!_ Of course we must discriminate- _to whom it is due;_ and we must be prudent- _when it is in the powe...
In this chapter there are three addresses. The first is of the nature of personal testimony (verses Pro 4:1-9). The next two are exhortations to fidelity (verses Pro 4:10-27). The father urges his own...
_He. Hebrew is masculine. (Calmet) --- As David instructed his son, so the latter teaches all how they may learn wisdom. (Worthington) _...
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom, get unde...
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...
HE TAUGHT ME ALSO, AND SAID UNTO ME,.... The Targum is, "they taught me,'' his father and his mother; and so the Septuagint version, "who said and taught me;'' and the Arabic version, "they both...
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. Ver. 4. _He taught me also._] As Cato taught his own children, and took it for no disgrace, thoug...
_He taught me also, and said unto me_ The following verses, at least as far as the tenth, are represented as containing the words of David, Solomon's father, that the name of so great a king, and so h...
He taught me also and said unto me, David thus proving himself a wise teacher, LET THINE HEART RETAIN MY WORDS, holding them fast for the purpose of following them always; KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS AND LIV...
ADMONITIONS CONCERNING WISDOM...
1-13 We must look upon our teachers as our fathers: though instruction carry in it reproof and correction, bid it welcome. Solomon's parents loved him, therefore taught him. Wise and godly men, in ev...
SAID UNTO ME: the following verses, at least as far as the 10th verse, are propounded as the words of David, that the name of so great a king and holy a prophet might add the more authority and effica...
Proverbs 4:4 taught H3384 (H8686) said H559 (H8799) heart H3820 retain H8551 (H8799) words H1697 Keep...
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REMINISCENCE OF WHAT HIS FATHER HAD TAUGHT HIM AS ‘A SON' (PROVERBS 4:3). Solomon now stresses that his wisdom has partly come down to him from his father. This greatly added to it...
CONTENTS: Earnest exhortation to the study of true wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: True wisdom from God is the principle thing. It is that which recommends us to God, which be...
Proverbs 4:1. _Hear, ye children,_ a Hebraism, equivalent to wash, cleanse, and purify your ears. A grateful son here recites the domestic piety of an illustrious father. David talked much with his ch...
_For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother._ THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF SOLOMON Solomon in these words gives us two pieces of his own private history, in order to a...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 4:3 WHEN I WAS A SON WITH MY FATHER. The father shows he can identify with his sons. He, too, was once young and under the instruction of a father. He also implies that wisdo...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 4:2. DOCTRINE, Literally something received, handed over; the author so describes it because he received it from his father. The Septuagint and the Vulgate translate by DONU...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 4:1 7. _Seventh admonitory discourse. _We here enter upon the second group of admonitory discourses, as is indicated by the opening address, "my children," and which occurs again...
Continuing to his son. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you might know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, don't forsake my law. For I was my father's son, ten...
1 Chronicles 22:11; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 3:15;...
SACRED EXHORTATIONS Proverbs 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is well, now and then, to step aside and consider what God has to say to young men and women; as well as to consider what He says to their fath...
Said — The following verses, at least as far as the tenth verse, are the words of David....