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Proverbs 24:6-16

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6 for by 1wise guidance you can wage your war, and in 2abundance of counselors there is victory.
7 Wisdom is 3too high for a fool; in 4the gate he does not open his mouth.
8 Whoever 5plans to do evil will be called a schemer.
9 6The devising[a] of folly is sin, and 7the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.
10 If you 8faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
11 9Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
12 If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," 10does not he who 11weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who 12keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man 13according to his work?
13 My son, 14eat honey, for it is good, and 15the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
14 Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be 16a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
15 17Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do no violence to his home;
16 18for the righteous falls 19seven times and rises again, but 20the wicked stumble in times of calamity.
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Proverbs 24:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 12

This chapter relates Rehoboam's going to Shechem to be made king, and Jeroboam's return from Egypt, 1Ki 12:1,2, the people's request to Rehoboam to be eased of their taxes, as the condition of making him king, 1Ki 12:3,4, his answer to them, after three days, having had the advice both of the old and young men, which latter he followed, and gave in a rough answer, 1Ki 12:5-15, upon which ten tribes revolted from him, and two abode by him, 1Ki 12:16-20, wherefore he meditated a war against the ten tribes, but was forbid by the Lord to engage in it, 1Ki 12:21-24 and Jeroboam, in order to establish his kingdom, and preserve the people from a revolt to the house of David, because of the temple worship at Jerusalem, devised a scheme of idolatrous worship in his own territories, 1Ki 12:25-33.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 20

  • 1. Proverbs 20:18
  • 2. See Proverbs 11:14
  • 3. [Proverbs 14:6]
  • 4. See Job 5:4
  • 5. Romans 1:30
  • 6. [Proverbs 21:27]
  • 7. See Psalms 1:1
  • 8. [Hebrews 12:3]
  • 9. Psalms 82:4; [Isaiah 58:6, 7]
  • 10. [Ecclesiastes 5:8]
  • 11. Proverbs 16:2; See 1 Samuel 16:7
  • 12. [Psalms 91:11]
  • 13. See Job 34:11
  • 14. [Psalms 19:10; Psalms 119:103; Song of Songs 5:1; Isaiah 7:15]
  • 15. Song of Songs 4:11
  • 16. See Proverbs 23:18
  • 17. Psalms 10:9, 10
  • 18. See Psalms 37:24
  • 19. See Job 5:19
  • 20. Proverbs 14:32

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