the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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THE MESSAGE
Proverbs 1:1
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The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
The proverbs of Shlomo, the son of David, king of Yisra'el:
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
These are the wise words of Solomon son of David, king of Israel.
The Proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
The proverbs (truths obscurely expressed, maxims) of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
The Parables of Salomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel,
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
These are the proverbs of King Solomon of Israel, the son of David.
The proverbs of Shlomo the son of David, king of Isra'el,
Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
These are the proverbs of Solomon, the son of David and king of Israel.
THE proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David and king of Israel.
Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
The Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
These are the prouerbes of Salomon the sonne of Dauid kynge of Israel:
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
The Prouerbes of Solomon the sonne of Dauid, King of Israel,
The prouerbes of Solomon the sonne of Dauid, kyng of Israel:
The Proverbs of Solomon son of David, who reigned in Israel;
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
The parablis of Salomon, the sone of Dauid, king of Israel;
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
These are the proverbs of Solomon, David's son, king of Israel.
These are the wise sayings of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, King of Israel:
The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel,
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
proverbs: Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 25:1, 1 Kings 4:31, 1 Kings 4:32, Ecclesiastes 12:9, John 16:25
Solomon: 2 Samuel 12:24, 2 Samuel 12:25, 1 Kings 2:12, 1 Chronicles 22:9, 1 Chronicles 28:5, 1 Chronicles 29:28
Reciprocal: Genesis 43:14 - And God Job 32:7 - General Ecclesiastes 12:10 - written
Cross-References
God spoke: "Earth, green up! Grow all varieties of seed-bearing plants, Every sort of fruit-bearing tree." And there it was. Earth produced green seed-bearing plants, all varieties, And fruit-bearing trees of all sorts. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Three.
God made two big lights, the larger to take charge of Day, The smaller to be in charge of Night; and he made the stars. God placed them in the heavenly sky to light up Earth And oversee Day and Night, to separate light and dark. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Four.
God spoke: "Swarm, Ocean, with fish and all sea life! Birds, fly through the sky over Earth!" God created the huge whales, all the swarm of life in the waters, And every kind and species of flying birds. God saw that it was good. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Ocean! Birds, reproduce on Earth!" It was evening, it was morning— Day Five.
When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses two tablets of Testimony, slabs of stone, written with the finger of God.
Then on the twenty-fourth day of this month, the People of Israel gathered for a fast, wearing burlap and faces smudged with dirt as signs of repentance. The Israelites broke off all relations with foreigners, stood up, and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their parents. While they stood there in their places, they read from the Book of The Revelation of God , their God, for a quarter of the day. For another quarter of the day they confessed and worshiped their God . A group of Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani—stood on the platform and cried out to God , their God, in a loud voice. The Levites Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, "On your feet! Bless God , your God, for ever and ever!" Blessed be your glorious name, exalted above all blessing and praise! You're the one, God , you alone; You made the heavens, the heavens of heavens, and all angels; The earth and everything on it, the seas and everything in them; You keep them all alive; heaven's angels worship you!
I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?
The skies were made by God 's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out. He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.
What a wildly wonderful world, God ! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon. Ships plow those waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them. All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they'd die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom.
God 's strong name is our help, the same God who made heaven and earth.
With Lady Wisdom, God formed Earth; with Madame Insight, he raised Heaven. They knew when to signal rivers and springs to the surface, and dew to descend from the night skies.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The proverbs of Solomon,.... Who is said to make three thousand proverbs, 1 Kings 4:32; but whether any of them are contained in this book cannot be said: however, it is certain that they are not all in it, since, if you except the first "nine" chapters, which are the introduction to the Proverbs, there are but six hundred and fifty-nine verses in it; and if they are taken in, they make but nine hundred and fifteen, which are not a third part of the proverbs said to be made by him: however, here are as many and such as God thought fit should be preserved for instruction in all future ages. It was usual with the ancients in all countries, when any truth was found, and established by experience, to wrap it up in a few apt words, with or without a figure; that it might be the better understood and more easily retained, and which were always venerable and greatly attended to: and of this kind are these proverbs; only with this difference, that these are of divine inspiration, and the others not. The word used for them comes from one which signifies "similitude" and "dominion" g; because many of them are similes or comparisons, and are delivered out in figurative expressions, in metaphors and allegories, and the like; and have all of them a commanding power, authority, and influence upon the mind, obliging to an attention to them. The name of Solomon is put to them, the more to recommend them; who had a wise and understanding heart, as large as the sand of the sea, and was wiser than all men, 1 Kings 4:29; and was an eminent type of Christ, who spake in proverbs also,
John 16:25. He is further described by his pedigree and office,
the son of David, king of Israel; a wise son of a wise father, and king over a wise and understanding people. These titles are added for the further commendation of the book; and it may be observed that they are such as belong to the Messiah, Solomon's antitype, one that is greater than he, Matthew 1:1.
g A rad. משל "dominatus est----lvmn comparatus, similis, consimilis factus est", Buxtorf. "Mirum est quod radix משל significans antoritatem cum imperio, significat etiam parabolas vel sermones figuratos----verba quae משלים vocantur, habent autoritatem, nobis ideam immittunt, dicentis ut nos supereminentis, saltem sapientia, ingenio, doctrina; nos persuadent et pondere suo, quasi imperio noe ducunt". Gusset. Ebr. Comment. p. 845.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The long exhortation Proverbs 1–9, characterized by the frequent recurrence of the words “my son,” is of the nature of a preface to the collection of the “Proverbs of Solomon” Proverbs 10:1. On Proverbs 1:1-7, see the introduction to Proverbs.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
THE PROVERBS
-Year from the Creation, 3004. -Year before the birth of Christ, 996.
-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 1000.
-Year since the Deluge, according to Archbishop Usher and the English Bible, 1348.
-Year from the destruction of Troy, 185.
-Year before the first Olympiad, 224. -Year before the building of Rome, 247.
CHAPTER I
The design of the proverbs, 1-6.
An exhortation to fear God, and believe his word, because of
the benefit to be derived from it, 7-9;
to avoid the company of wicked men, who involve themselves in
wretchedness and ruin, 10-19.
Wisdom, personified, cries in the streets, and complains of the
contempt with which she is treated, 20-23.
The dreadful punishment that awaits all those who refuse her
counsels, 24-33.
NOTES ON CHAP. I
Verse Proverbs 1:1. The proverbs of Solomon — For the meaning of the word proverb, see the introduction; and the dissertation upon parabolical writing at the end of the notes on Matthew 13:58. Solomon is the first of the sacred writers whose name stands at the head of his works.
