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Douay-Rheims Bible

Proverbs 2:1

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Personification;   Wisdom;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Fear;   Finding;   Knowledge;   Obedience;   Seeking;   Understanding;   Wisdom;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Knowledge;   Mind;   Teacher;   Wisdom literature;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Treasure, Treasury;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Boyhood ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My son, if you accept my words
Hebrew Names Version
My son, if you will receive my words, And store up my mitzvot within you;
King James Version
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
English Standard Version
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
New Century Version
My child, listen to what I say and remember what I command you.
New English Translation
My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,
Amplified Bible
My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
New American Standard Bible
My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
World English Bible
My son, if you will receive my words, And store up my commandments within you;
Geneva Bible (1587)
My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,
Legacy Standard Bible
My son, if you will receive my wordsAnd treasure my commandments within you,
Berean Standard Bible
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
Contemporary English Version
My child, you must follow and treasure my teachings and my instructions.
Complete Jewish Bible
My son, if you will receive my words and store my commands inside you,
Darby Translation
My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee,
Easy-to-Read Version
My son, pay attention to what I say. Remember my commands.
George Lamsa Translation
MY son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments in your heart,
Good News Translation
My child, learn what I teach you and never forget what I tell you to do.
Lexham English Bible
My child, if you will receive my sayings, and hide my commands with you,
Literal Translation
My son, if you will receive my words, and treasure up my commandments with you,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My sonne, yf thou wilt receaue my wordes, and kepe my comaundemetes by the,
American Standard Version
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;
Bible in Basic English
My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;
King James Version (1611)
My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my words, and hide my commaundements with thee;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My sonne, if thou wylt receaue my wordes, and lay vp my commaundementes within thee,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee;
English Revised Version
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi sone, if thou resseyuest my wordis, `and hidist myn heestis anentis thee;
Update Bible Version
My son, if you will receive my words, And lay up my commandments with you;
Webster's Bible Translation
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
New King James Version
My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you,
New Living Translation
My child, listen to what I say, and treasure my commands.
New Life Bible
My son, if you receive my sayings and store up my teachings within you,
New Revised Standard
My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My son, if thou wilt receive my sayings, and, my commandments, wilt treasure up by thee;
Revised Standard Version
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
Young's Literal Translation
My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
THE MESSAGE
Good friend, take to heart what I'm telling you; collect my counsels and guard them with your life. Tune your ears to the world of Wisdom; set your heart on a life of Understanding. That's right—if you make Insight your priority, and won't take no for an answer, Searching for it like a prospector panning for gold, like an adventurer on a treasure hunt, Believe me, before you know it Fear-of- God will be yours; you'll have come upon the Knowledge of God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,

Contextual Overview

1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee, 2 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence. 3 For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence: 4 If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure: 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God: 6 Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. 7 He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity, 8 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints. 9 Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.

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

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.
Genesis 1:10
And God called the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 2:3
And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth:
Genesis 2:5
And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.
Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:11
The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.
Genesis 2:13
And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia.
Exodus 20:11
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
Exodus 31:17
Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.

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.


 
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