Proverbs 4:8
What meaning of the proverbs 4:8 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 4:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her."
What does Proverbs 4:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her."
Verse Proverbs 4:8. _SHE SHALL BRING THEE TO HONOUR_] There is nothing, a strict life of piety and benevolence excepted, that has such a direct tendency to _reflect honour_ upon a man, as the careful...
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; Psalms 15:1; Psalms 24:1; Psalms 37. Proverbs 4:7 Or, “Th...
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) Proverbs 4:1. This passage shows the early tra...
WHEN. because. Hebrew. _ki._...
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...
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. EXALT HER, AND SHE SHALL PROMOTE THEE; SHE SHALL BRING THEE TO HONOUR, WHEN THOU DOST EMBRACE HER...
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 d...
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...
EXALT HER, AND SHE SHALL PROMOTE THEE. — Comp. 1 Samuel 2:30, “Them that honour me I will honour.”...
סַלְסְלֶ֥הָ וּֽ תְרֹומְמֶ֑ךָּ תְּ֝כַבֵּ֗דְךָ כִּ֣י תְחַבְּקֶֽנָּה׃...
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...
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...
EXALT HER, AND SHE SHALL PROMOTE THEE,.... Christ is to be exalted in his person, by asserting his proper deity; by ascribing all divine perfections to him; by allowing him to be the author of all div...
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. Ver. 8. _Exalt her, and she shall._] Have a high and honourable esteem of her and her children. Rabb...
_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...
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 eve...
EXALT HER; let her have thine highest esteem and affection. TO HONOUR, both with God and men; which Solomon knew by experience....
Proverbs 4:8 Exalt H5549 (H8769) promote H7311 (H8787) honor H3513 (H8762) embrace H2263 (H8762) Proverbs 3:35, Proverbs 22:4; 1 Samuel 2:30; 1 Kings 3:5-13; Daniel 12:3
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 i...
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...
_Exalt her, and she shall promote thee._ MAN AND RELIGION MUTUALLY EXALTED True wisdom includes two things--first, the choice of the highest possible good; secondly, the adoption of the best possibl...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 4:8. EXALT or “esteem.” PROVERBS 4:9. Last clause, or “she shall compass thee with a crown of glory.” PROVERBS 4:10. As is all other instances (see Notes on Chap. Proverbs...
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 Kings 3:5; 1 Samuel 2:30; Daniel 12:3; Proverbs 22:4; Proverbs 3:35...
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 fat...
Exalt — Let her have thine highest esteem and affection....