Proverbs 24:10-14

10 If you ¹faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

11 ²Rescue 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, ” ³does not he who ⁴weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who ⁵keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man ⁶according to his work?

13 My son, ⁷eat honey, for it is good, and ⁸the 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 ⁹a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Proverbs 24:10-14 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.

Cross References

• 1. 24:10 [Heb. 12:3]
• 2. 24:11 Ps. 82:4; [Isa. 58:6, 7]
• 3. 24:12 [Eccles. 5:8]
• 4. 24:12 ch. 16:2; See 1 Sam. 16:7
• 5. 24:12 [Ps. 91:11]
• 6. 24:12 See Job 34:11
• 7. 24:13 [Ps. 19:10; 119:103; Song 5:1; Isa. 7:15]
• 8. 24:13 Song 4:11
• 9. 24:14 See ch. 23:18