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Amsal 27:24

Karena harta benda tidaklah abadi. Apakah mahkota tetap turun-temurun?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Industry;   Riches;   Thompson Chain Reference - Poverty-Riches;   Riches, Earthly;   The Topic Concordance - Diligence;   Endurance;   Wealth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Agriculture or Husbandry;   Riches;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crown;   Proverb;   Proverbs, Book of;   Riches;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Crown;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 29;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Karena harta benda tidaklah abadi. Apakah mahkota tetap turun-temurun?

Contextual Overview

23 Be thou diligent to knowe the state of thy cattell thy selfe, and loke well to thy flockes. 24 For riches abideth not alway, and the crowne endureth not for euer. 25 The hay groweth, the grasse commeth vp, and hearbes are gathered in the mountaynes. 26 The lambes shall clothe thee, and for the goates thou shalt haue money to thy husbandry. 27 Thou shalt haue goates milke inough to feede thee, to vpholde thy housholde, and to sustayne thy maydens.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For: Proverbs 23:5, Zephaniah 1:18, 1 Timothy 6:17, 1 Timothy 6:18

riches: Heb. strength, James 1:10

doth: 2 Samuel 7:16, Psalms 89:36, Isaiah 9:7

every generation: Heb. generation and generation

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 17:20 - right hand Psalms 39:6 - he heapeth 1 Timothy 6:7 - we brought

Cross-References

Genesis 27:7
Bring me venison, and make me daintie meate, that I may eate, and blesse thee before the Lorde, afore my death.
Genesis 27:8
Nowe therfore my sonne heare my voyce in that which I comaunde thee.
1 Samuel 21:2
And Dauid said to Ahimelech the priest: The king hath commaunded me a certaine thing, and hath sayd vnto me, Let no man know wher about I send thee, and what I haue commaunded thee: And I haue appoynted my seruauntes to suche and suche places.
1 Samuel 21:13
And he chaunged his speache before them, and fained him selfe mad in their handes, and scrabled on the doores of the gate, and let his spettell fall downe vpon his beard.
1 Samuel 27:10
And Achis saide: Where haue ye ben a rouing this day? And Dauid aunswered: Against the south of Iuda, and against the south of the Ierameelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
2 Samuel 14:5
The king said vnto her: What ayleth thee? She aunswered: I am in deede a wydow, and myne husband is dead.
Job 15:5
For thy mouth setteth forth thyne owne iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen the tongue of the craftie.
Proverbs 12:19
The lippe of trueth shalbe stable for euer: but a dissemblyng tongue is soone chaunged.
Proverbs 12:22
The Lorde abhorreth lying lippes: but they that deale truely please hym.
Proverbs 30:8
Remoue farre fro me vanitie and lyes, geue me neither pouertie nor riches, only graunt me a necessary lyuyng:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For riches [are] not for ever,.... A man cannot be assured of the continuance of them; they are uncertain things, here today and gone tomorrow: wherefore, though a man has a considerable share of them, yet should follow one calling or another; particularly husbandry is recommended, or keeping sheep and cattle, which are increasing; by which means his substance will be continued and augmented, which otherwise is not to be depended on, but in a diligent attendance to business;

and doth the crown [endure] to every generation? the royal crown, that is not to be depended upon; a king that wears a crown is not sure he shall always wear it, or that it shall be continued to his family one generation after another. And it is suggested, that it is not even beneath such persons to have a regard to their flocks and herds, and the increase of their riches in this way: the Chinese kings, many of them, formerly employed themselves in husbandry, and set examples of industry and diligence to their subjects t; King Hezekiah provided himself possessions of flocks and herds in abundance, 2 Chronicles 32:28.

t Vid. Martin. Hist. Sinica, p. 92, 93, 326.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The verses sing the praises of the earlier patriarchal life, with its flocks and herds, and tillage of the ground, as compared with the commerce of a later time, with money as its chief or only wealth.

Proverbs 27:23

The state - literally, face. The verse is an illustration of John 10:3, John 10:14.

Proverbs 27:24

Riches - The money which men may steal, or waste, is contrasted with the land of which the owner is not so easily deprived. Nor will the crown (both the “crown of pure gold” worn on the mitre of the high priest, Exodus 29:6; Exodus 39:30; and the kingly diadem, the symbol of power generally) be transmitted (as flocks and herds had been) “from one generation to another.”

Proverbs 27:25

Appeareth - Better, When the grass disappeareth, the “tender grass showeth itself.” Stress is laid on the regular succession of the products of the earth. The “grass” (“hay”) of the first clause is (compare Psalms 37:2; Psalms 90:5; Psalms 103:15; 2 Kings 19:26) the proverbial type of what is perishable and fleeting. The verse gives a picture of the pleasantness of the farmer’s calling; compared with this what can wealth or rank offer? With this there mingles (compare Proverbs 27:23) the thought that each stage of that life in its season requires care and watchfulness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 27:24. For riches are not for ever — All other kinds of property are very transitory. Money and the highest civil honours are but for a short season. Flocks and herds, properly attended to, may be multiplied and continued from generation to generation. The crown itself is not naturally so permanent.


 
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