Proverbs 7:1

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Proverbs 7:1.-Prefatory exhortation to retaining firmly wisdom as the safeguard against the strange woman (Proverbs 7:1). Graphic picture of how she entraps the unwary youth (Proverbs 7:6). Concluding summary of warning against her (). MY SON ... LAY UP MY COMMANDMENTS WITH THEE - (.)...

1-5 We must lay up God's commandments safely. Not only, Keep them, and you shall live; but, Keep them as those that cannot live without them. Those that blame strict and careful walking as needless and too precise, consider not that the law is to be kept as the apple of the eye; indeed the law in the heart is the eye of the soul. Let the word of God dwell in us, and so be written where it will be always at hand to be read. Thus we shall be kept from the fatal effects of our own passions, and the snares of Satan. Let God's word confirm our dread of sin, and resolutions against it....

CHAPTER VII _A farther exhortation to acquire wisdom, in order to be_ _preserved from impure connections_, 1-5. _The character of a harlot, and her conduct towards a youth who_ _fell into her snare_, 6-23. _Solemn exhortations to avoid this evil_, 24-27. NOTES ON CHAP. VII Verse Proverbs 7:1. _MY SON, KEEP MY WORDS_] See Proverbs 2:1....

The harlot adulteress of an Eastern city is contrasted with the true feminine ideal of the Wisdom who is to be the “sister” and “kinswoman” Proverbs 7:4 of the young man as he goes on his way through life. See Proverbs 8 in the introduction....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 7:1 13. _Thirteenth admonitory discourse, _containing a warning against adultery, treated under a different aspect from previous exhortations, and strengthened by an example. In this chapter and the following a contrast is drawn between the adulteress and Wisdom. PROVERBS 7:1 MY SON, KEEP MY WORDS. The teacher enjoins his pupil, as in Proverbs 2:1, to observe the rules which he gives. Lay up, as a precious treasure (see on Proverbs 2:1 and Proverbs 2:7

MY SON, KEEP MY WORDS,.... Doctrines and instructions; which, as a father to a son, or a master to his scholars, he had delivered; these he would have him observe and attend to; AND LAY UP MY COMMANDMENTS WITH THEE: as a treasure in his heart, to be brought out upon occasion; to be kept as valuable, and made use of as an antidote against and a preservative from sinning; see Psalms 119:11. The Septuagint and Arabic versions add, what is not in the Hebrew text, "son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong;'' the Arabic adds, "and he shall strengthen thee; and fear none besides him.''...

CHAPTER 7 The entire chapter is a continuation of the strange woman and the warning against her. The Word and the law of the Lord will keep the obedient son from her. If Solomon had obeyed the Word of God, not to multiply wives (Deuteronomy 17:17) his end would not have been spent in the degrading fellowship with the harlots of other nations. The description is very graphic. What the word pictures is as prominent in the great centers of Christendom as it was thousands of years ago in Babylon and Egypt. And so it is still true: _ She hath cast down many wounded;_ Yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, Going down to the chambers of death. But think of Solomon after having received these inspired descriptions and warnings, that he should have been forgetful of them all....

The longest and most elaborate description of the adulteress, the fate of her victim, and the value of wisdom as a safeguard. PROVERBS 7:1. General advice to the young man to observe the commandments and the torah of the sage, that he may be preserved from the adulteress. PROVERBS 7:3 B. _cf._ 2 Corinthians 3:3, and for the opposite thought Jeremiah 17:1. Proverbs 7:4. kinswoman: lit. one well known, familiar friend, only in Ruth 2:1;...

MY SON. See note on Proverbs 1:8. KEEP. watch. WORDS. sayings. Hebrew. _imrah._ App-73....

The LXX. add at the end of this verse, "My son, fear the Lord and thou shalt be strong, And beside him, fear none other....