Proverbs 24:1-9

1 ne aemuleris viros malos nec desideres esse cum eis

2 quia rapinas meditatur mens eorum et fraudes labia eorum loquuntur

3 sapientia aedificabitur domus et prudentia roborabitur

4 in doctrina replebuntur cellaria universa substantia pretiosa et pulcherrima

5 vir sapiens et fortis est et vir doctus robustus et validus

6 quia cum dispositione initur bellum et erit salus ubi multa consilia sunt

7 excelsa stulto sapientia in porta non aperiet os suum

8 qui cogitat malefacere stultus vocabitur

9 cogitatio stulti peccatum est et abominatio hominum detractor

Proverbs 24:1-9 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.