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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 3:1-35

Chapter 3Chapter 3 continues toMy son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments: For length of days, long life, peace, shall they add to thee ( Proverbs 3:1-2 ).Now these are the three. And we get now into some couplets here. He gives sort of a word, and then he tells you what the result of it will be. And to keep the commandment in your heart, it will grant to you the length of days, long life, peace will they add to thee. Now the next little statement:Let not mercy and truth... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 3:1-35

Proverbs 3:2 . Length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. The premature death denounced against the profligate, and the victims of the harlot, shall be far from thy dwelling. The truth of this promise, of frequent occurrence in the sacred writings, is demonstrated by the longevity of many scripture characters; and eternal life, by way of apposition, is understood. Proverbs 3:3 . Bind them about thy neck. As vain persons decorate their bodies with gems and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 3:1-35

Proverbs 3:1-35My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments.Useful precepts and inspiring motivesI. To remember and keep in our hearts the things written in this book (Proverbs 3:1-2). Interest dictates to us the propriety of keeping God’s commandments.II. To live in the exercise of mercy and truth (Proverbs 3:3), in every part of our intercourse with our fellow-creatures, however defective they may be in the practice of these virtues to us. As workers under the Spirit we... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 3:13-26

Proverbs 3:13-26Happy is the man that findeth wisdom. WisdomI. The pleasures of wisdom.1. Present happiness.2. Lasting happiness.II. The preciousness of wisdom (Proverbs 3:14-18). Many figures are employed to set forth the preciousness of wisdom.III. The possession of wisdom.1. Its reception (Proverbs 3:18). This laying hold implies earnestness and determination. Heavenly wisdom will never be the portion of the man who has “no heart to it” (Proverbs 17:16).2. Its retention (Proverbs 3:21). The... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 3:14

Proverbs 3:14For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. The honour, profit, and pleasure of religionIt is an unquestionable truth, that to walk in the paths which God has enjoined, is to secure to ourselves the most perfect felicity which our present state will admit; and that our misery and unhappiness arise in proportion to our deviation from that “peaceful and pleasant path.” If you are wise enough to lay hold of and retain this... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 3:15

Proverbs 3:15She is more precious than rubies.The quality of virtueThe words wisdom, understanding, and knowledge partly translate the word “virtue.”I. The wonderful effects virtue produces on the mind.1. The effects bear no proportion to our immediate sentiments concerning it.2. Observe the complete change which it produces upon the human character itself. It gives the human being all the value which he can possess.3. Notice the power it possesses of communicating immediate happiness to the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 3:16

Proverbs 3:16Length of days is in her right hand.Godliness a help to longevitySo far from being true that good men, women, and children die sooner than others, the reverse is actually the case. As wickedness acts as a shortener of life, so does a regard for God’s wholesome laws help to lengthen it. It is an unnatural thing for one to desire to die before he has finished his work on earth. It cannot be wrong in us to love life, when God promises it to His children as a special blessing. It is... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 3:17

Proverbs 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness. The walk of faith a way of pleasantness and peaceI. Why is it that all the ways of wisdom are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace? Because they are the appointment of an infinitely tender Father for His covenant children to walk in. The way towards Mount Zion might have been full of bitterness, but even then it would have been best to walk in the way of safety. Heaven has its openings here. The peaceful mind, the heart that rests in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 3:19

Proverbs 3:19The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth.Earthly and heavenly wisdomThere is but one wisdom for God and man. Man’s true wisdom is a pattern of God’s wisdom. A man to prosper in the world must get the very same wisdom by which God made and rules the world. In the last hundred years science has improved in a most wonderful way, and is improving every day. This improvement has taken place simply by mankind understanding this text, and obeying it. For more than sixteen hundred years... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 3:20

Proverbs 3:20The clouds drop down the dew.The sea night-mist of PalestineThere is a very remarkable and regular provision of Nature, peculiar to Bible lands, which may be observed in a first sight of Palestine on any night in the hot season when a west wind is blowing. I allude to the sea night-mist of the hot season. It explains in a very striking and hitherto unsuspected manner the numerous occurrences of the Hebrew word tal, uniformly rendered “dew” in the Authorised Version of the Bible.... read more

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