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Amsal 26:3

Cemeti adalah untuk kuda, kekang untuk keledai, dan pentung untuk punggung orang bebal.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ass (Donkey);   Bridle;   Fool;   Punishment;   Whip;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bridle;   Correction;   Rod;   Whips;   The Topic Concordance - Chastisement;   Foolishness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ass, the Domestic;   Horse, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fool, Foolishness, Folly;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bit;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bit, Bridle;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Horse;   Proverbs, Book of;   Rod;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Horse;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Whip;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bit and Bridle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bridle;   Cruelty;   Folly and Fool;   Horse;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Cemeti adalah untuk kuda, kekang untuk keledai, dan pentung untuk punggung orang bebal.

Contextual Overview

3 Unto the horse belongeth a whip, to the asse a brydle: and a rod to the fooles backe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

According to our notions, we should rather say, a bridle for the horse, and a whip for the ass; but it should be considered, that the Eastern asses are not only much more beautiful, but better goers that ours; and being active and well broken, they need only a bridle to guide them; whereas their horses being scarce, and often caught wild, and badly broken, are much less manageable, and need the correction of the whip. Proverbs 10:13, Proverbs 17:10, Proverbs 19:25, Proverbs 27:22, Judges 8:5-7, Psalms 32:9, 1 Corinthians 4:21, 2 Corinthians 10:6, 2 Corinthians 13:2

Reciprocal: Proverbs 19:29 - and Proverbs 26:1 - so Proverbs 29:19 - servant Isaiah 30:28 - a bridle Jeremiah 31:18 - as a

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
And the Lorde appearyng vnto Abram, sayd, Unto thy seede wyl I geue this lande: And there buylded he an aulter vnto the Lorde whiche appeared vnto hym.
Genesis 13:15
For all the lande whiche thou seest, wyll I geue vnto thee, and to thy seede for euer.
Genesis 13:17
Arise, and walke about in the lande, after the length of it, & after the breadth of it: for I wyll geue it vnto thee.
Genesis 15:18
In that same day the Lorde made a couenaunt with Abram, saying: vnto thy seede haue I geuen this lande, fro the ryuer of Egypt, euen vnto the great ryuer, the ryuer of Euphrates.
Genesis 17:8
And I wyll geue vnto thee and to thy seede after thee, the lande wherein thou art a strauger [euen] al the lande of Chanaan, for an euerlastyng possession, and wyll be their God.
Genesis 20:1
And Abraham departed thence towarde the south countrey, & dwelled betweene Cades and Sur, and soiourned in Gerar.
Genesis 26:1
And there fell a famine in the land, besides the first that was in the dayes of Abraham: And Isahac went vnto Abimelech, king of the Philistines, vnto Gerar.
Genesis 26:2
And the Lorde appeared vnto hym, and sayde: Go not downe into Egypt, [but] abyde in the lande whiche I shall shewe vnto thee.
Genesis 26:6
And Isahac dwelled in Gerar.
Genesis 26:12
Then Isahac sowed in that lande, and receaued in the same yere an hundred folde: and the Lorde blessed hym.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A whip for the horse,.... One that is dull of going, or refractory and wants breaking;

a bridle for the ass; not to curb and restrain it from going too fist, asses being generally dull; but to direct its way and turn it when necessary, it being stiffnecked and obstinate; though the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it a "spear" or "goad", something to prick with, and excite it to motion; and so the Targum; or otherwise one would have thought the whip was fitter for the ass and the bridle for the horse;

and a rod for the fool's back; suggesting that the fool, or wicked man, is like the horse or the mule; though not without understanding of things natural, yet of things divine and moral; and as stupid as the ass, however wise he may conceit himself to be, being born like a wild ass's colt; and instead of honour being given him, stripes should be laid upon him; he should be reproved sharply, and corrected for his wickedness, especially the causeless curser, Proverbs 19:29.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 26:3. A whip for the horse — Correction is as suitable to a fool, as a whip is for a horse, or a bridle for an ass.


 
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