Proverbs 24:6-16

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

10 si desperaveris lassus in die angustiae inminuetur fortitudo tua

11 erue eos qui ducuntur ad mortem et qui trahuntur ad interitum liberare ne cesses

12 si dixeris vires non suppetunt qui inspector est cordis ipse intellegit et servatorem animae tuae nihil fallit reddetque homini iuxta opera sua

13 comede fili mi mel quia bonum est et favum dulcissimum gutturi tuo

14 sic et doctrina sapientiae animae tuae quam cum inveneris habebis in novissimis et spes tua non peribit

15 ne insidieris et quaeras impietatem in domo iusti neque vastes requiem eius

16 septies enim cadet iustus et resurget impii autem corruent in malum

Proverbs 24:6-16 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.