Proverbs 3:2
What meaning of the proverbs 3:2 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 3:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For length of days, and longa life, and peace, shall they add to thee."
What does Proverbs 3:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For length of days, and longa life, and peace, shall they add to thee."
Verse Proverbs 3:2. _FOR LENGTH OF DAYS_] THREE eminent _blessings_ are promised here: 1. ארך ימים orech yamim, long days; 2. שנות חיים shenoth chaiyim, years of lives; 3. שלום shalom, prosperity;...
Three words carry on the chain of blessings: (1) “Length of days” (see the Psalms 91:16 note); (2) “Years of life,” i. e., of a life worth living (compare Psalms 30:5; Psalms 42:8); (3) “Peace,” tr...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The call and promise of wisdom (Proverbs 3:1)_ 2. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom (Proverbs 3:11) 3. Promise and instruction (Proverbs 3:21) Proverbs 3:1. The call to obedience...
FOURTH Discourse. The sage exhorts the young man to heed his oral instruction (_torah),_ and to trust in Yahweh, fear Him, and honour Him in the prescribed manner of firstfruits. It is interesting to...
THEY. Not the "law" and "commandments" of Proverbs 3:1, for they are feminine, but the "days" of Proverbs 3:2 (which are masculine, agreeing with the verb "add", which is masculine also). See App-74....
Fourth Address. Chap. Proverbs 3:1-10 Be obedient to my instruction, so shalt thou live long and prosper (Proverbs 3:1). Trust, not in thyself, but in God (Proverbs 3:5). Seek His direction (Proverbs...
CHAPTER 3 TEXT Proverbs 3:1-12 1. My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: 2. For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee. 3. Let not kind...
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. FOR LENGTH OF DAYS, AND LONG LIFE, AND PEACE, SHALL THEY ADD TO THEE - (; ; ; Psalms 34:12; "Godliness hath promise of the life...
THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE AND OF CHASTISEMENT The first and third divisions, 1-10, 21-35, are exhortations to good conduct and promises of consequent blessing. The second, 11-20, declares the profit...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 3 V1 My son, do not forget my law. Keep my commands in your heart. V2 My commands will bring you long life. They will bring you wealth....
III. (d)_ Fourth Discourse_: — _Exhortation to Various Virtues_ (Pro iii 1-18). (2) LONG LIFE. — That is, a life worth living, fit to be called “life”; whereas” length of days” only implies extensio...
כִּ֤י אֹ֣רֶךְ יָ֭מִים וּ שְׁנֹ֣ות חַיִּ֑ים וְ֝ שָׁלֹ֗ום יֹוסִ֥יפוּ לָֽךְ׃...
CHAPTER 4 THE EARTHLY REWARDS OF WISDOM Proverbs 3:1 THE general teaching of these nine introductory Chapter s is that the "ways of Wisdom are pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." We are taug...
THE RESULTS OF TRUSTING JEHOVAH Proverbs 3:1-12 How replete with helpful instruction on the policy of life is this paragraph! The _young_ of both sexes are invited to be merciful in their judgments...
As the former address had to do with the search for wisdom, this, in view of the value of if is an appeal to cultivate wisdom. The appeal consists of a declaration of its essence (verses Pro 3:1-10),...
For length of (a) days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. (a) Long life is the blessing of God which he gives to his, so far as it is expedient for them....
_Peace. These prefigured more substantial blessings. (Calmet)_...
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...
FOR LENGTH OF DAYS, AND LONG LIFE,.... Or, "years of life", or "lives" f; a long life of usefulness and comfort here, and eternal life hereafter: the law of Moses promised a long life to the observers...
_For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee._ Ver. 2. _For length of days._] A sweet mercy, and generally desired. Psa 34:12 Short life is reckoned as a curse, Psa 89:47 yet...
_My son, forget not my law_ My doctrine or counsel; _but let thy heart keep_, &c. By diligent meditation and hearty affection. _For length of days_, &c. God will add these blessings which he hath prom...
OBEDIENCE, FAITH, AND LIBERALITY URGED...
LONG LIFE: _ Heb._ years of life...
1-6 In the way of believing obedience to God's commandments health and peace may commonly be enjoyed; and though our days may not be long upon earth, we shall live for ever in heaven. Let not mercy a...
God will add these blessings which he hath promised to the obedient, DEUTERONOMY 8:18, DEUTERONOMY 30:20 1 TIMOTHY 4:8....
Proverbs 3:2 length H753 days H3117 long H8141 life H2416 peace H7965 add H3254 (H8686) length - Proverbs 3:16, Proverbs 4:10, Proverbs 9:11; Job 5:26; Psalms 34:11-14,...
INTRODUCTORY EXHORTATION FOLLOWED BY THE REQUIREMENT TO TRUST IN YHWH, TO FEAR YHWH AND TO HONOUR YHWH (PROVERBS 3:1). Solomon here speaks of wisdom and understanding in terms of ‘my torah -- my comma...
CONTENTS: The power of true wisdom to make men both blessed and a blessing. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: Those who have a continual regard to God's precepts and put themselves unde...
Proverbs 3:2. _Length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee._ The premature death denounced against the profligate, and the victims of the harlot, shall be far from thy dwelling. T...
_My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments._ USEFUL PRECEPTS AND INSPIRING MOTIVES I. To remember and keep in our hearts the things written in this book (Proverbs 3:1). Int...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 3:1. KEEP. This word, says Miller, primarily means to look _hard at_, and generally to _keep watch over_, as over a vineyard. PROVERBS 3:2. LENGTH OF DAYS, properly “extens...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 3:1 4. _Fourth admonitory discourse. _The third chapter introduces us to a group of admonitions, and the first of these (Proverbs 3:1) forms the fourth admonitory discourse of the...
Chapter 3 continues to My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments: For length of days, long life, peace, shall they add to thee (Proverbs 3:1-2). Now these are the three. And...
1 Timothy 4:8; Ephesians 6:1; Isaiah 32:17; Isaiah 57:19; Job 5:26; Proverbs 3:16; Proverbs 3:17; Proverbs 4:10; Proverbs 9:11; Psalms
LEST WE FORGET Proverbs 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Proverbs speaks several times of the danger of forgetting God and His Commandments. We are firmly convinced that herein is a danger that w...