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Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 5:1-7

Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 A thoughtless resorting to the sanctuary, inattention and indevotion there, and precipitancy in religious vows and promises are still as common as in the days of Solomon. And for these evils the only remedy is that which he prescribes: a heartfelt and abiding reverence. I. There is a preparation for the sanctuary. Not only should there be prayer beforehand for God's blessing there, but a studious effort to concentrate on its services all our faculties. In the spirit of that... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 5:1-20

Ecclesiastes 3:1-5:20 A profound gloom rests on the second act or section of this drama. It teaches us that we are helpless in the iron grip of laws which we had no voice in making; that we often lie at the mercy of men whose mercy is but a caprice; that in our origin and end, in body and spirit, in faculty and prospect, in our lives and pleasures, we are no better than the beasts that perish; that the avocations into which we plunge, amid which we seek to forget our sad estate, spring from our... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 5:1-20

Chapter 5Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they do not consider the evil that they do ( Ecclesiastes 5:1 ).When you go into the house of God, listen. Be more ready to hear.Don't be rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and you are upon the earth: therefore let your words be few ( Ecclesiastes 5:2 ).And now he's talking about going in the house of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ecclesiastes 5:1-20

Ecclesiastes 5:1 . Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God. Avoid wandering thoughts, and be wholly absorbed in devotion. Do not hear the words of prayer only, but desire the blessings sought. Set the Lord always before you, as enthroned in his temple, and surrounded with cherubim and seraphim. Contemplate God in the glory of his covenant; see yourselves as worms of the dust, and you will gradually enter into the true spirit and power of devotion. Then, when the hour of prayer is... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 5:1-12

Ecclesiastes 5:1-12Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God.Reverence and fidelityThis passage is a series of cautions against irreverence and insincerity in worship, against discouragement because of political wrongs, and against the passion for, and misuse of, great riches. Distrust in God underlies all these evils. Humble faith in and reliance upon Him, in the contrast, mark the wise man. Note--I. One’s proper bearing in the Lord’s house (Ecclesiastes 5:1-7).1. In the first three... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ecclesiastes 5:3

Ecc 5:3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice [is known] by multitude of words. Ver. 3. For a dream cometh through the multitude of business. ] When all the rest of the senses are bound up by sleep, the soul entereth into the shop of the fancy, and operates there usually according to the businesses and employments of the day past; et fieri videntur quae fieri tamen non videntur, saith Tertullian, a those things seem to be done in a dream, which yet are not... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ecclesiastes 5:3

a fool's: Ecclesiastes 10:12-2 Chronicles :, Proverbs 10:19, Proverbs 15:2 Reciprocal: Job 13:5 - and it Proverbs 14:23 - but Proverbs 17:28 - General Ecclesiastes 5:2 - for Ecclesiastes 5:7 - in the Ecclesiastes 10:3 - and he Ecclesiastes 10:14 - fool Matthew 6:7 - use James 1:19 - slow to speak read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ecclesiastes 5:3

For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.A dream — When men are oppressed with business in the day, they dream of it in the night.Is known — It discovers the man to be a foolish, and rash, and inconsiderate man.Of words — Either in prayer, or in vowing, by making many rash vows, of which he speaks verse4,5,6, and then returns to the mention of multitude of dreams and many words, verse7, which verse may be a comment upon this, and... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 5:3

3. A dream cometh When the mind is crowded with many things the devotions come to have the incoherency of a dream, the thoughts being rambling and disconnected; the whole exercise is thus rendered unprofitable. The is known would be better omitted, as the words are not in the Hebrew. The word “cometh” is naturally supplied. Thus, a fool’s voice that is, unmeaning talk cometh by multitude of words. Vain repetitions will ensue, and the worshipper may think himself heard for his much... read more