the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Proverbs 22:20
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Have I not written to you excellent thingsOf counsels and knowledge,
Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,
Haue not I warned thee very oft with counsayle and learning,
Have not I written to thee excellent things, in counsels and knowledge,
Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,
Have I not written to you yesterday and the day before with counsels and knowledge,
I have written 30 sayings for you. These are words of advice and wisdom.
Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things Of counsel and knowledge,
Haue not I written to thee excellent things in counsailes and knowledge:
Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Haue not I warned ye very oft with councell and lerninge?
Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,
Have I not put in writing for you thirty sayings, with wise suggestions and knowledge,
Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,
Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge,
I have written thirty sayings filled with sound advice.
I have written you worthwhile things full of good counsel and knowledge,
Haue not I written vnto thee three times in counsels and knowledge,
Behold, this is the third time that I have written them to you,
Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things Of counsel and knowledge,
Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge;
I have written thirty sayings for you, filled with advice and knowledge.
Have I not written to you great things of wise teaching and much learning
And do thou too repeatedly record them for thyself on the table of thine heart, for counsel and knowledge.
Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge;
Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,
Have I not written for you thirty sayings of admonition and knowledge,
Have I not written for thee noble things, with counsels and knowledge:
Behold I have described it to thee three manner of ways, in thoughts and knowledge:
Have I not written for you thirty sayings with admonitions and knowledge?
Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge,
Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,
I have written thirty sayings for you, which give knowledge and good advice.
I have written down thirty sayings for you. They contain knowledge and good advice,
Haven't I written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,
Lo! Y haue discryued it in thre maneres, in thouytis and kunnyng,
Have I not written for you thirty sayings of admonition and knowledge,
Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 8:6, Psalms 12:6, Hosea 8:12, 2 Timothy 3:15-17, 2 Peter 1:19-21
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:5 - General Job 36:4 - in Psalms 49:3 - mouth Proverbs 4:2 - good Proverbs 16:20 - whoso
Cross-References
After Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram and Nahor and Haran [his firstborn].
Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai (later called Sarah), and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Then the servant took ten of his master's camels, and set out, taking some of his master's good things with him; so he got up and journeyed to Mesopotamia [between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers], to the city of Nahor [the home of Abraham's brother].
Before Eliezer had finished speaking (praying), Rebekah came out with her [water] jar on her shoulder. Rebekah was the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.
And she said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, Milcah's son, whom she bore to [her husband] Nahor."
"The God of Abraham [your father] and the God of Nahor [my father], and the god [the image of worship] of their father [Terah, an idolater], judge between us." But Jacob swore [only] by [the one true God] the Fear of his father Isaac.
Like cold water to a thirsty soul, So is good news from a distant land.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Have not I written to thee excellent things,.... In the Scriptures. Some render it, "three things" c; and think that Solomon refers to the three divisions of the Scriptures among the Jews, the law, the prophets, and holy writings; so Jarchi; but some of those writings then were not: or to the three books wrote by him; the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs. Others render it, "in a threefold way" d, as the Targum and several versions; that is, in various ways, in different forms and styles, in order the better to inform and instruct. But it is best, with Kimchi, Gersom, and Ben Melech, to render it, "excellent things", as we do; such are the truths of the Gospel; they are more excellent than those that are only known by the light of nature, or by the law of Moses: such as suspect the love and grace of God; the person and offices of Christ; peace, pardon, righteousness, atonement, life and salvation, by him. And these are said to lie
in counsels and knowledge; in disclosing the counsels of God, according to which they are; in giving the best of counsels to men; to perishing sinners, to look to Christ for salvation; to naked ones, to buy of him white raiment, or the robe of his righteousness; to guilty and filthy ones, to apply to his blood for pardon and cleansing; to hungry and thirsty ones, to come unto him for food, the bread of life, and water of life; and to weary ones, to him for rest; and all to do their duty both to God and men: and they also respect knowledge; the knowledge of divine and heavenly things; the knowledge of God in Christ, and of his perfections, as displayed in his salvation; the knowledge of Christ, what he is in himself, what he has done for his people, and is unto them; and especially the knowledge of salvation by him; all which the Gospel is a means of.
c שלשים "terna", Montanus, Vatablus, so Jarchi. d τριαρως, Sept. "tripticiter", V. L. and Arabic version; "tribus vicibus", Baynus, Targum and Syriac version; "triplici filo et nexa", Schultens; "triplicata", Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Excellent things - A meaning of the word derived from “the third,” i. e., “the chief of three warriors in a chariot” (compareExodus 14:7; Exodus 14:7 note). Another reading of the Hebrew text gives “Have I not written to thee long ago?” and this would form a natural antithesis to “this day” of Proverbs 22:19. The rendering of the Septuagint is: “write them for thyself three times;” that of the Vulgate, “I have written it (i. e., my counsel) In threefold form;” the “three times” or “threefold form” being referred either to the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, or to the division of the Old Testament into the Law, the prophets, and the Hagiographa.
