Mishle 4:2

2 For I give you lekach tov (good doctrine, good instruction), forsake ye not my torah.

Mishle 4:2 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 4:2

For I give you good doctrine
Whose author, matter, use, and tendency, are good, and therefore should be received; so the Gospel is called, ( 1 Timothy 4:6 ) ; and no other is here meant: it is the doctrine concerning Wisdom or Christ, as the following verses show; which serves to exalt him, and makes for the good and welfare of immortal souls; and such is the doctrine of the Scriptures, of Christ and his apostles, even all the doctrines and truths of the Gospel; forsake you not my law;
or "doctrine" ^F15; not the law given on Mount Sinai, as Gersom interprets it; but the doctrine of Christ, which goes out from Mount Zion: this the children of Wisdom should not neglect, relinquish, drop, or depart from; but should keep it, and abide by it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (ytrwt) "doctrinam meam", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Amama; "instructionem meam", Schultens.

Mishle 4:2 In-Context

1 Hear, ye banim, the musar (instruction, discipline) of an av, and attend to know binah (understanding).

2 For I give you lekach tov (good doctrine, good instruction), forsake ye not my torah.

3 For I was ben to avi, tender and yachid (an only child) before immi.

4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine lev retain my words; be shomer over my mitzvot, and live.

5 Acquire chochmah, acquire binah (understanding); forget it not; neither turn from the words of my peh (mouth).