Proverbs 28:1
What meaning of the proverbs 28:1 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 28:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion."
What does Proverbs 28:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion."
CHAPTER XXVIII _The timidity of the wicked. Quick succession in the government_ _of a country is a punishment to the land. Of the poor who_ _oppress the poor. The upright poor man is preferable to...
CHAPTER 28 WARNINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED The wicked is a coward; the righteous man, because he trusteth in the Lord and knows the Lord is on his side, is as bold as a lion. It is the conscience...
SECOND DIVISION, PROVERBS 28 F. In general character this division resembles Section II., consisting chiefly of antithetic couplets. PROVERBS 28:2 B. The text is uncertain, and various renderings ar...
THE WICKED FLEE, &C.. A lawIess one flees. Illustrations: Adam (Genesis 3:8); Joseph's brethren (Genesis 50:15); the Jews (Leviticus 26:36); Ahab (1 Kings 21:20); Herod Antipas (Matthew 14:2. Compare...
CHAPTER 28 TEXT Proverbs 28:1-9 1. The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the righteous are bold as a lion. 2. For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; But by men of under...
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. THE WICKED FLEE (SINGULAR NOUN WITH PLURAL VERB: THEY ALL FLEE AS ONE MAN) WHEN NO MAN PURSUETH - through the stings of...
OBSERVATIONS RELATING CHIEFLY TO SOCIAL LIFE 2. Cp. the many changes of rulers during the unsatisfactory period described in 2K15....
A wicked man has a bad conscience. And he does not trust God. So a wicked man has no hope for the future. And he is afraid of many things. But the good man has a good conscience. He trusts God. The g...
XXVIII (1) THE WICKED FLEE WHEN NO MAN PURSUETH. — Comp. the curse pronounced upon Israel for disobedience (Leviticus 26:17; Leviticus 26:36). THE RIGHTEOUS ARE BOLD AS A LION. — Comp. Leviticus 26:...
נָ֣סוּ וְ אֵין ־רֹדֵ֣ף רָשָׁ֑ע וְ֝ צַדִּיקִ֗ים כִּ כְפִ֥יר יִבְטָֽח׃...
CHAPTER 29 AN ASPECT OF ATONEMENT "He that hideth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy."- Proverbs 28:13 "Happy is the man that feareth a...
Verse Proverbs 28:2. "The transgression of a land" must be understood as the opposite of the "state shall be prolonged." Then the proverb means that a multiplicity of princes is an evil, but men of un...
The wicked (a) flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. (a) Because their own conscience accuses them....
_Pursueth. "A crime is its own punishment." (Seneca, ep. 93.) (Leviticus xxvi. 36.) --- Dread. Of any thing terrestrial, as long as the object of his love is not attacked, Romans viii. 35._...
CONTENTS. The wise man is prosecuting the same subjects in this chapter as in the preceding. By various similitudes he teacheth the blessedness of wisdom's ways, and the awful termination of a contra...
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 follow...
THE WICKED FLEE WHEN NO MAN PURSUETH,.... Through the terrors of a guilty conscience, as in Cain and others; who fear where no immediate cause of fear is, are frightened with their own shadows; and as...
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. Ver. 1. _The wicked fly when none pursueth._] None but their own consciences. _Facti sunt a corde suo fugitivi,_ as Tertull...
_The wicked flee when no man pursueth_ Because a consciousness of their guilt excites in them a continual expectation and dread of God's judgments; _but the righteous are bold as a lion_ Are courageou...
The wicked flee when no man pursueth, their bad conscience making them timid; BUT THE RIGHTEOUS, filled with the consciousness of their uprightness and therefore possessing a good conscience, ARE BOLD...
IF we HAVE SEEN in chapter 27 the blessing of God and refuge in the sanctuary, chapter 28, a fourth section. brings our feet abruptly back to the wilderness path, where walk and ways must be tested by...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 28 The character of the righteous and of the wicked, with the blessed fruits of integrity, and evil effects of sin, PROVERBS 28:11. The evil of concealing and blessedness of confessin...
Proverbs 28:1 wicked H7563 flee H5127 (H8804) pursues H7291 (H8802) righteous H6662 bold H982 (H8799) lion H3715 wicked - Leviticus 26:17, Leviticus 26:36; Deuteronomy 28:7, Deuteronomy 28:25;...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: True religion is true wisdom, making men wise in every relation. Those who make conscience of God's law will find a security in the...
Proverbs 28:2. _By a man of understanding the state shall be prolonged._ Who can value the Samuels in Israel; the Gracchuses in Rome; the Walpoles, the Chathams in England? In Lord Chatham's time it w...
_The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion._ CHRISTIAN BOLDNESS In all ages courage has been regarded as a mark of honour and magnanimity, and cowardice has been cons...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 28:1. FOR THE TRANSGRESSION, etc. Or, “_In the rebellion_.” “For this use of the word transgression in the sense of _revolt_, compare the verb employed in this sense in 2 Ki...
EXPOSITION This chapter is still part of the Hezekiah collection, and not a new series by another author. It may be regarded as describing the various destinies of the powerful and the weak, the sinn...
Twenty-eight: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are as bold as a lion (Proverbs 28:1). The contrast of the wicked and the righteous. We had an awful lot of that early in the pr...
1 Thessalonians 2:2; 2 Kings 7:15; 2 Kings 7:6; 2 Kings 7:7; Acts 14:3; Acts 4:13; Daniel 3:16; Daniel 6:10; Daniel 6:11; Deuteronomy 28:25;...
DIVINE CONTRASTS Proverbs 28:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have another one of Solomon's messages which God gave to him. We will bring out several statements in the beginning of the chapter. 1. A CONTRA...