Proverbios 24:1-7

1 No tengas envidia de los hombres malos, ni desees estar con ellos;

2 porque su corazón piensa en robar, e iniquidad hablan sus labios.

3 Con sabiduría se edificará la casa, y con prudencia se afirmará;

4 y con ciencia se llenarán las cámaras de todas riquezas preciosas y hermosas.

5 El hombre sabio es fuerte; y el hombre entendido es valiente de fuerza.

6 Porque con sabios consejos harás la guerra; y la salud está en la multitud de consejeros.

7 Alta está para el loco la sabiduría; en la puerta no abrirá él su boca.

Proverbios 24:1-7 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.