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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

箴言 30:25

螞蟻是微小的昆蟲,卻能在夏天預備糧食。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Ant;   Industry;   Riddle;   Summer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ant;   Insects;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Summer;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ant;   Proverb, the Book of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ant;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Fable;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Insects;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Agur;   Ant;   Jakeh;   Massa;   Proverb;   Proverbs, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ant;   Proverbs, Book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ant;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Summer;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Ant;  

Encyclopedias:

- Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ant;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ant in Jewish Literature, the;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
蚂 蚁 是 无 力 之 类 , 却 在 夏 天 预 备 粮 食 。

Contextual Overview

24 "There are four things on earth that are small, but they are very wise: 25 Ants are not very strong, but they store up food in the summer. 26 Rock badgers are not very powerful, but they can live among the rocks. 27 Locusts have no king, but they all go forward in formation. 28 Lizards can be caught in the hand, but they are found even in kings' palaces.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The ants may truly be called a people, as they have houses, towns, public roads, etc.; and shew their wisdom and prudence by preparing their meat in due season. Proverbs 6:6-8

Reciprocal: Proverbs 6:8 - General Proverbs 10:5 - gathereth Joel 1:6 - nation

Cross-References

Genesis 18:33
When the Lord finished speaking to Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
Genesis 24:54
The servant and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, the servant said, "Now let me go back to my master."
Genesis 24:56
But the servant said to them, "Do not make me wait, because the Lord has made my trip successful. Now let me go back to my master."
Genesis 26:3
Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. I will give you and your descendants all these lands, and I will keep the oath I made to Abraham your father.
Genesis 28:13
Then Jacob saw the Lord standing above the ladder, and he said, "I am the Lord , the God of Abraham your grandfather, and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are now sleeping.
Genesis 28:15
I am with you and will protect you everywhere you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
Genesis 30:4
So Rachel gave Bilhah, her slave girl, to Jacob as a wife, and he had sexual relations with her.
Genesis 30:5
She became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.
Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, "God has judged me innocent. He has listened to my prayer and has given me a son," so she named him Dan.
Genesis 30:7
Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The ants [are] a people not strong,.... Far from it; what is weaker than an ant? a multitude of them may be destroyed at once, with the crush of a foot. Pliny calls it "minimum animal", the least animal; and the Arabians use it as a proverb, to call a weak man one weaker than an ant: and there is one sort of ants called "dsar", so small that one hundred of them will not weigh more than a barley corn g: they are called a people, because they associate together in great numbers; though small in bulk, and weak as to power and strength; and which is a figure elsewhere used in the sacred Scriptures; see Joel 1:6; and by profane writers, as Homer and Virgil, who speak of bees as a people and nation h; and of nations of flies, and of flying birds, geese, cranes, and swans i;

yet their prepare their meat in the summer; build granaries with great art and wisdom, carry in grains of corn with great labour and industry, in the summer season, when only to be got, and lay them up against winter. Phocylides k the poet says much the same things of them; he calls them a tribe or nation, small but laborious, and says, they gather and carry in their food in summer for the winter, which is a proof of their wisdom. Cicero l says, the ant has not only sense, but mind, reason, and memory. Aelianus m ascribes unspeakable wisdom to it; and Pliny n discourse and conversation; Joel 1:6- :,

Joel 1:6- :;

Joel 1:6- :. It is a pattern of industry and diligence both as to temporal and spiritual things, Ecclesiastes 9:10.

g Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 22. col. 598. h εθνεα μελισσαων Iliad. 2. v. 87. "Et populos et proelia dicam", Georgic. l. 4. v. 4, 5. i Iliad. 2. v. 459, 469. & 15. v. 690, 691. k Poem. Admon. v. 158, 159. l De Natura Deorum, l. 3. m De Animal. l. 16. c. 15. n Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 30.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal reference note. Note the word “people” applied here to ants, as to locusts in Joel 1:6. The marvel lies in their collective, and, as it were, organized action.


 
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