Proverbs 12:1-10

1 If you love learning, you love the discipline that goes with it - how shortsighted to refuse correction!

2 A good person basks in the delight of God, and he wants nothing to do with devious schemers.

3 You can't find firm footing in a swamp, but life rooted in God stands firm.

4 A hearty wife invigorates her husband, but a frigid woman is cancer in the bones.

5 The thinking of principled people makes for justice; the plots of degenerates corrupt.

6 The words of the wicked kill; the speech of the upright saves.

7 Wicked people fall to pieces - there's nothing to them; the homes of good people hold together.

8 A person who talks sense is honored; airheads are held in contempt.

9 Better to be ordinary and work for a living than act important and starve in the process.

10 Good people are good to their animals; the "good-hearted" bad people kick and abuse them.

Proverbs 12:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST KING 2

This chapter gives an account of the charge David gave to his son Solomon, a little before his death, to walk in the ways of the Lord, 1Ki 2:1-4; and of some instructions delivered to him concerning some particular persons he should either show favour to, or execute justice on, 1Ki 2:5-9; and the next account in it is concerning his death and burial, and the years of his reign, 1Ki 2:10,11; after which it relates an address of Bathsheba to Solomon in favour of Adonijah, which was refused, and the issue of it was his death, 1Ki 2:12-25; and the deposition of Abiathar from the priesthood, 1Ki 2:26,27; and the putting of Joab to death for his treason and murders, 1Ki 2:28-34; in whose post Benaiah was put, as Zadok was in the place of Abiathar, 1Ki 2:35; and lastly the confinement of Shimei in Jerusalem, who had cursed David, 1Ki 2:36-38; who upon transgressing the orders given him was put to death, 1Ki 2:39-46.