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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Proverbs 1

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Chapter 1

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

proverbs

10:1 25:1 1 Kings 4:31,32 Ecclesiastes 12:9 John 16:25

Solomon

2 Samuel 12:24,25 1 Kings 2:12 1 Chronicles 22:9 28:5 29:28

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

4:5-7 7:4 8:5 16:16 17:16 Deuteronomy 4:5,6 1 Kings 3:9-12 2 Timothy 3:15-17

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

receive

2:1-9 8:10,11 Job 22:22

equity

Heb. equities.

1 Kings 3:28

To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

subtilty

22,23 8:5 9:4-6 Psalms 19:7 119:130 Isaiah 35:8

to the

7:7-24 8:17,32 Psalms 34:11 119:9 Ecclesiastes 11:9,10 12:1 2 Timothy 2:22 Titus 2:6

discretion

or, advisement.

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

wise

9:9 12:1 Job 34:10,16,34 Psalms 119:98-100 1 Corinthians 10:15

a man

1 Samuel 25:32,33 2 Chronicles 25:16

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

a proverb

Matthew 13:10-17,51,52 Mark 4:11,34 Acts 8:30,31

the interpretation

or, an eloquent speech. the words.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

dark

Psalms 49:4 78:2 Matthew 13:34,35 Hebrews 5:14 2 Peter 3:16

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

fear

9:10 Job 28:28 Psalms 111:10 112:1 Ecclesiastes 12:13

beginning

or, principal part. but.

22,29,30 5:12,13 15:5 18:2 John 3:18-21 Romans 1:28

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

My son

10,15 2:1 3:1 7:1 Matthew 9:2,22

hear

4:1-4 5:1,2 6:20 30:17 31:1 Leviticus 19:3 Deuteronomy 21:18-21 1 Samuel 2:25 2 Timothy 1:5

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

they

3:22 4:9 6:20,21 1 Timothy 2:9,10 1 Peter 3:3,4

an ornament

Heb. an adding.

Genesis 41:42 Song of Solomon 1:10 4:9 Isaiah 3:19 Ezekiel 16:11 Daniel 5:7,16,29

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

7:21-23 13:20 20:19 Genesis 39:7-13 Judges 16:16-21 Psalms 1:1 50:18 Romans 16:18 Ephesians 5:11

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

let us lay

16 12:6 30:14 Psalms 56:6 64:5,6 Jeremiah 5:26 Micah 7:2 Acts 23:15 25:3

let us lurk

18 Psalms 10:8-10 17:12 35:7 Jeremiah 11:19 18:18-20 Matthew 26:3,4 John 15:25

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

swallow

Psalms 35:25 56:1,2 57:3 124:3 Jeremiah 51:34 Lamentations 2:5,16 Micah 3:2,3

as the

Psalms 5:9 Romans 3:13

whole

Numbers 16:30-33 26:10 Psalms 28:1 143:7

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

19 Job 24:2,3 Isaiah 10:13,14 Jeremiah 22:16,17 Nahum 2:12 Haggai 2:9 Luke 12:15 1 Timothy 6:9,10 Revelation 18:9-16

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

walk

4:14,15 9:6 13:20 Psalms 1:1 26:4,5 2 Corinthians 6:17

refrain

4:27 5:8 Psalms 119:101 Jeremiah 14:10

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

4:16 6:18 Isaiah 59:7 Romans 3:5

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

in vain

7:23 Job 35:11 Isaiah 1:3 Jeremiah 8:7

sight of any bird

Heb. eyes of everything that hath a wing.

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

5:22,23 9:17,18 28:17 Esther 7:10 Psalms 7:14-16 9:16 55:23 Matthew 27:4,5

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

every

15:27 23:3,4 2 Samuel 18:11-13 2 Kings 5:20-27 Jeremiah 22:17-19 Micah 2:1-3 Micah 3:10-12 Habakkuk 2:9 Acts 8:19,20 1 Timothy 3:3 6:9,10 James 5:1-4 2 Peter 2:3,14-16

taketh

Job 31:39 Ecclesiastes 5:13

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

Wisdom

Heb. Wisdoms, that is, excellent wisdom.

Matthew 13:54 Luke 11:49 1 Corinthians 1:24,30 Colossians 2:3

crieth

8:1-5 9:3 John 7:37

She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

9:3 Matthew 10:27 13:2 John 18:20 Acts 5:20

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

How

6:9 Exodus 10:3 16:28 Numbers 14:27 Matthew 17:17

ye simple

7:7 9:4-6,16-18 Psalms 94:8 Matthew 9:13 11:29,30 23:37 Luke 19:42 Revelation 22:17

the scorners

3:34 14:6 15:12 19:29 21:11 Job 34:7 Psalms 1:1 2 Peter 3:3

fools

7,29 5:12 John 3:20

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Turn

Isaiah 55:1-3,6,7 Jeremiah 3:14 Ezekiel 18:27-30 33:11 Hosea 14:1 Acts 3:19 Acts 26:20

my reproof

25,30 6:23 10:17 12:1 29:1 Psalms 145:1 Revelation 3:19

behold

Isaiah 32:15 45:8 Joel 2:28 Zechariah 12:10 Luke 11:13 John 7:36,37 Acts 2:36-38 Revelation 3:16-18

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

I have called

Isaiah 50:2 65:12 66:4 Jeremiah 7:13 Ezekiel 8:18 Zechariah 7:11,12 Matthew 22:5,6 Matthew 23:37,38 Hebrews 12:25,26

stretched

Psalms 31:20 Acts 4:30 Romans 10:21

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

ye

30 2 Chronicles 36:16 Psalms 107:11 Luke 7:30

would

30 5:12 12:1 Psalms 81:11

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Judges 10:14 Psalms 2:4 37:13 Luke 14:24

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

your fear

3:25,26 10:24,25 Psalms 69:22-28 Luke 21:26,34,35 1 Thessalonians 5:3 Revelation 6:15-17

as a

Psalms 58:9 Isaiah 17:13 Nahum 1:3

distress

Luke 21:23-25 Romans 2:9

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

shall they

Genesis 6:3 Job 27:9 35:12 Psalms 18:41 Isaiah 1:15 Jeremiah 11:11 14:12 Ezekiel 8:18 Micah 3:4 Zechariah 7:13 Matthew 7:22,23 25:10-12 Luke 13:25-28 James 4:3

they shall seek

Psalms 78:34-36 Hosea 5:15 6:1-4

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

that

22 5:12 6:23 Job 21:14,15 Psalms 50:16,17 Isaiah 27:11 30:9-12 John 3:20 Acts 7:51-54

not

Luke 10:42 Hebrews 11:25

They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

25 Psalms 81:11 119:111,173 Jeremiah 8:9 Luke 14:18-20

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

14:14 22:8 Job 4:8 Isaiah 3:10,11 Jeremiah 2:19 6:19 Galatians 6:7,8

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

the turning

8:36 John 3:36 Hebrews 10:38,39 12:25

and the

Deuteronomy 32:15-44 Psalms 69:22 92:6,7 Luke 12:16-21 16:19-25 Hebrews 12:8 James 5:5

prosperity

or, ease.

Jeremiah 48:11,12

But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

whoso

8:32-35 9:11 Psalms 25:12,13 81:13 Isaiah 48:18 55:3 Matthew 17:5 John 10:27-29 1 Peter 1:5

and shall

3:21-26 14:26 Psalms 112:7 Isaiah 26:3 Luke 21:9,19 Romans 8:35-39