Proverbs 1:12
What meaning of the proverbs 1:12 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 1:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:"
What does Proverbs 1:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:"
Verse Proverbs 1:12. _LET US SWALLOW THEM UP ALIVE_] Give them as hasty a death as if the earth were suddenly to swallow them up. This seems to refer to the destruction of a whole village. Let us dest...
i. e., “We will be as all-devouring as Sheol. The destruction of those we attack shall be as sudden as that of those who go down quickly into the pit.” Some render the latter clause, and upright men a...
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 in...
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....
THE GRAVE. Hebrew. _sheol._ App-35. PIT. Hebrew. _bor,_. hole bored or dug. Hence. dry pit or grave. Compare Genesis 37:20....
_the grave_ or, _Sheol_, R.V. text, ᾅδης LXX., infernus Vulg. _whole_ Some (as R.V. marg. _even the perfect_) give the Heb. word here the moral sense, which it has elsewhere. But both the parallelism...
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...
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: LET US SWALLOW THEM UP ALIVE AS THE GRAVE; AND WHOLE, AS THOSE THAT GO DOWN INTO THE PIT - so as to leave...
1:12 Sheol, (a-8) See Note h, Psalms 6:5 ....
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....
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...
ALIVE. — Comp. the death of Dathan and Abiram (Numbers 16:30)....
נִ֭בְלָעֵם כִּ שְׁאֹ֣ול חַיִּ֑ים וּ֝ תְמִימִ֗ים כְּ יֹ֣ורְדֵי בֹֽור׃...
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 mor...
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;...
Let us swallow them up alive as the (l) grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: (l) As the grave is never satisfied, so the malice of the wicked and their cruelty has no end....
_Pit. Grave, or hell, like Dathan, Numbers xvi. This shews the greatest rage, Job xxxi. 31._...
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...
LET US SWALLOW THEM UP ALIVE AS THE GRAVE,.... The innocent person, and those that are with him, his servants; our gang is so numerous that we can very easily dispatch him and all his attendants, and...
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: Ver. 12. _Let us swallow them up alive._] As the devil doth. 1 Peter 5:8 2Ti 2:26 _Homo homini demon._ The po...
_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...
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...
AS THE GRAVE; which speedily covers and consumes dead bodies. See PSALMS 55:15, PSALMS 124:3. We shall do our work quickly, easily, and without fear of discovery. INTO THE PIT; into some deep pit, int...
Proverbs 1:12 swallow H1104 (H8799) alive H2416 Sheol H7585 whole H8549 down H3381 (H8802) Pit H953 swallow - Psalms 35:25, Psalms 56:1-2, Psalms 57:3, Psalms 124:3; Jer
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...
GRAVE Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
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) and the foolish (despising such...
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 o...
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...
Jeremiah 51:34; Lamentations 2:16; Lamentations 2:5; Micah 3:2; Micah 3:3; Numbers 16:30; Numbers 26:10; Psalms 124:3; Psalms 143:7; Psa
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 the...