Proverbios 24:1-7

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

2 porque su corazón trama violencia, y sus labios hablan de hacer mal.

3 Con sabiduría se edifica una casa, y con prudencia se afianza;

4 con conocimiento se llenan las cámaras de todo bien preciado y deseable.

5 El hombre sabio es fuerte, y el hombre de conocimiento aumenta su poder.

6 Porque con dirección sabia harás la guerra, y en la abundancia de consejeros está la victoria.

7 Muy alta está la sabiduría para el necio, en la puerta no abre 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.