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THE MESSAGE
Proverbs 2:1
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My son, if you accept my words
My son, if you will receive my words, And store up my mitzvot within you;
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
My child, listen to what I say and remember what I command you.
My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,
My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
My son, if you will receive my words, And store up my commandments within you;
My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,
My son, if you will receive my wordsAnd treasure my commandments within you,
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
My child, you must follow and treasure my teachings and my instructions.
My son, if you will receive my words and store my commands inside you,
My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee,
My son, pay attention to what I say. Remember my commands.
MY son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments in your heart,
My child, learn what I teach you and never forget what I tell you to do.
My child, if you will receive my sayings, and hide my commands with you,
My son, if you will receive my words, and treasure up my commandments with you,
My sonne, yf thou wilt receaue my wordes, and kepe my comaundemetes by the,
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;
My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;
My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my words, and hide my commaundements with thee;
My sonne, if thou wylt receaue my wordes, and lay vp my commaundementes within thee,
My son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee;
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;
Mi sone, if thou resseyuest my wordis, `and hidist myn heestis anentis thee;
My son, if you will receive my words, And lay up my commandments with you;
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you,
My child, listen to what I say, and treasure my commands.
My son, if you receive my sayings and store up my teachings within you,
My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,
My son, if thou wilt receive my sayings, and, my commandments, wilt treasure up by thee;
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
if: Proverbs 1:3, Proverbs 4:1, Proverbs 7:1, John 12:47, John 12:48, 1 Timothy 1:15
hide: Proverbs 3:1, Proverbs 4:20-22, Proverbs 6:21, Deuteronomy 6:6-9, Job 23:12, Psalms 119:9-11, Matthew 13:44, Luke 2:19, Luke 2:51, Luke 9:44
Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:3 - cheweth Deuteronomy 11:19 - General Deuteronomy 30:13 - go over the sea Deuteronomy 33:3 - shall receive Joshua 1:8 - thou shalt 1 Chronicles 28:8 - keep 1 Chronicles 28:9 - if thou seek Nehemiah 8:13 - the second Job 22:22 - receive Psalms 25:8 - teach Psalms 34:11 - I will Psalms 119:11 - Thy word Psalms 119:66 - Teach me Proverbs 1:8 - My son Proverbs 4:21 - in the Proverbs 5:1 - attend Proverbs 18:1 - seeketh Proverbs 19:8 - he that keepeth Proverbs 19:20 - receive Proverbs 23:15 - My son Proverbs 24:14 - when Proverbs 28:7 - keepeth Daniel 12:10 - but the wise Hosea 6:3 - if Matthew 2:9 - the star Matthew 6:33 - seek Matthew 13:19 - and understandeth Luke 11:36 - the whole John 5:38 - ye have John 8:32 - ye shall John 17:6 - they John 17:8 - received Acts 8:28 - and sitting Acts 17:11 - they received 1 Thessalonians 2:11 - as 2 Thessalonians 2:10 - they received Hebrews 2:1 - the more
Cross-References
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
At the time God made Earth and Heaven, before any grasses or shrubs had sprouted from the ground— God hadn't yet sent rain on Earth, nor was there anyone around to work the ground (the whole Earth was watered by underground springs)— God formed Man out of dirt from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life. The Man came alive—a living soul!
Then God planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it. God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat. The Tree-of-Life was in the middle of the garden, also the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil.
He wrote on, "Blessed be the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, and who gave King David a son so wise, so knowledgeable and shrewd, to build a temple for God and a palace for himself. I've sent you Huram-Abi—he's already on his way—he knows the construction business inside and out. His mother is from Dan and his father from Tyre. He knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, in purple, violet, linen, and crimson textiles; he is also an expert engraver and competent to work out designs with your artists and architects, and those of my master David, your father.
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!
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.
God 's Message, the God who created the cosmos, stretched out the skies, laid out the earth and all that grows from it, Who breathes life into earth's people, makes them alive with his own life: "I am God . I have called you to live right and well. I have taken responsibility for you, kept you safe. I have set you among my people to bind them to me, and provided you as a lighthouse to the nations, To make a start at bringing people into the open, into light: opening blind eyes, releasing prisoners from dungeons, emptying the dark prisons. I am God . That's my name. I don't franchise my glory, don't endorse the no-god idols. Take note: The earlier predictions of judgment have been fulfilled. I'm announcing the new salvation work. Before it bursts on the scene, I'm telling you all about it."
God , Creator of the heavens— he is, remember, G od. Maker of earth— he put it on its foundations, built it from scratch. He didn't go to all that trouble to just leave it empty, nothing in it. He made it to be lived in. This God says: "I am God , the one and only. I don't just talk to myself or mumble under my breath. I never told Jacob, ‘Seek me in emptiness, in dark nothingness.' I am God . I work out in the open, saying what's right, setting things right. So gather around, come on in, all you refugees and castoffs. They don't seem to know much, do they— those who carry around their no-god blocks of wood, praying for help to a dead stick? So tell me what you think. Look at the evidence. Put your heads together. Make your case. Who told you, and a long time ago, what's going on here? Who made sense of things for you? Wasn't I the one? God ? It had to be me. I'm the only God there is— The only God who does things right and knows how to help. So turn to me and be helped—saved!— everyone, whoever and wherever you are. I am God , the only God there is, the one and only. I promise in my own name: Every word out of my mouth does what it says. I never take back what I say. Everyone is going to end up kneeling before me. Everyone is going to end up saying of me, ‘Yes! Salvation and strength are in God !'" All who have raged against him will be brought before him, disgraced by their unbelief. And all who are connected with Israel will have a robust, praising, good life in God !
"Pay close attention now: I'm creating new heavens and a new earth. All the earlier troubles, chaos, and pain are things of the past, to be forgotten. Look ahead with joy. Anticipate what I'm creating: I'll create Jerusalem as sheer joy, create my people as pure delight. I'll take joy in Jerusalem, take delight in my people: No more sounds of weeping in the city, no cries of anguish; No more babies dying in the cradle, or old people who don't enjoy a full lifetime; One-hundredth birthdays will be considered normal— anything less will seem like a cheat. They'll build houses and move in. They'll plant fields and eat what they grow. No more building a house that some outsider takes over, No more planting fields that some enemy confiscates, For my people will be as long-lived as trees, my chosen ones will have satisfaction in their work. They won't work and have nothing come of it, they won't have children snatched out from under them. For they themselves are plantings blessed by God , with their children and grandchildren likewise God -blessed. Before they call out, I'll answer. Before they've finished speaking, I'll have heard. Wolf and lamb will graze the same meadow, lion and ox eat straw from the same trough, but snakes—they'll get a diet of dirt! Neither animal nor human will hurt or kill anywhere on my Holy Mountain," says God .
But the Portion-of-Jacob is the real thing. He put the whole universe together And pays special attention to Israel. His name? God -of-the-Angel-Armies!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My son,.... These are either the continuation of the words of Solomon to his son Rehoboam; or to anyone that came to him for instruction, or was within the reach of being taught by him; whom he addresses in this tender and affectionate manner, in order to gain his attention to what he was about to say: or else they are the words of Wisdom, or Christ, continued, thus bespeaking: his children and people; and giving them some very wholesome counsel and advice, backed with the most powerful and prevailing arguments;
if thou wilt receive my words; or doctrines: the doctrines of the Gospel, relating to the person, office, and grace of Christ, and salvation by him; such as the words of peace, pardon, righteousness, and life; which are to be received, not as the word of man, but as the word of God; and with all readiness of mind and willingness, as they were by the Bereans; and most gladly, as by the three thousand pricked to the heart under Peter's sermon; and as they are and will be by every sensible sinner;
and hide my commandments with thee; in the heart; so as to have a high esteem of them, and a hearty affection and value for them; retain them in memory, and frequently think of them and meditate upon them, and constantly observe them; see Psalms 119:11.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Now in the divine order comes the promise Proverbs 2:5. The conditions of its fulfillment are stated in Proverbs 2:1-4 in four sets of parallel clauses, each with some shade of distinct meaning. Thus, not “receiving” only, but “hiding” or treasuring up - not the “ear” only, but the “heart” - not the mere “cry,” but the eager “lifting up the voice.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER II
The teacher promises his pupil the highest advantages, if he
will follow the dictates of wisdom, 1-9.
He shall be happy in its enjoyment, 10, 11;
shall be saved from wicked men, 12-15;
and from the snares of bad women, 16-19;
be a companion of the good and upright; and be in safety in the
land, when the wicked shall be rooted out of it, 20-22.
NOTES ON CHAP. II.
Verse Proverbs 2:1. My son — Here the tutor still continues to instruct his disciple.
Hide my commandments with thee — Treasure them up in thy heart, and then act from them through the medium of thy affections. He who has the rule of his duty only in his Bible and in his head, is not likely to be a steady, consistent character; his heart is not engaged, and his obedience, in any case, can be only forced, or done from a sense of duty: it is not the obedience of a loving, dutiful child, to an affectionate father. But he who has the word of God in his heart, works from his heart; his heart goes with him in all things, and he delights to do the will of his heavenly Father, because his law is in his heart. See Proverbs 3:3.
