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Proverbs 30:19-29

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19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.
20 This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, "I have done no wrong."
21 Under 1three things 2the earth trembles; under 3four it cannot bear up:
22 4a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is 5filled with food;
23 6an unloved woman when she 7gets a husband, and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.
24 8Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise:
25 9the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;
26 10the rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
27 the locusts have no 11king, yet all of them march in 12rank;
28 the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.
29 13Three things are stately in their tread; 14four are stately in their stride:
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Proverbs 30:19-29 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 17

This chapter begins with a prophecy of Elijah, that there should be want of rain for some years to come, and he is directed to go first to the brook Cherith, where he should be fed by ravens, 1Ki 17:1-7, and afterwards he is sent to a widow at Zarephath, where he, she, and her son, were supported for a considerable time with a handful of meal, and a little oil in a cruse miraculously increased, 1Ki 17:8-16, whose son falling sick and dying, he restored to life, 1Ki 17:17-24.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 14

  • 1. [See ver. 15 above]
  • 2. Joel 2:10; Amos 8:8
  • 3. [See ver. 15 above]
  • 4. Proverbs 19:10
  • 5. [ver. 9]
  • 6. Deuteronomy 21:15
  • 7. [Isaiah 54:1; Isaiah 62:4]
  • 8. [See ver. 15 above]
  • 9. Proverbs 6:6-8
  • 10. Leviticus 11:5; Psalms 104:18
  • 11. [Proverbs 6:7]
  • 12. [Joel 2:7, 8, 25]
  • 13. ver. 15, 18, 21; [Proverbs 6:16]
  • 14. ver. 15, 18, 21; [Proverbs 6:16]
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