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Proverbs 2:1
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My son, if you accept my words
My son, if you will receive my words, And store up my mitzvot within you;
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
My child, listen to what I say and remember what I command you.
My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,
My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
My son, if you will receive my words, And store up my commandments within you;
My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,
My son, if you will receive my wordsAnd treasure my commandments within you,
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
My child, you must follow and treasure my teachings and my instructions.
My son, if you will receive my words and store my commands inside you,
My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee,
My son, pay attention to what I say. Remember my commands.
MY son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments in your heart,
My child, learn what I teach you and never forget what I tell you to do.
My child, if you will receive my sayings, and hide my commands with you,
My son, if you will receive my words, and treasure up my commandments with you,
My sonne, yf thou wilt receaue my wordes, and kepe my comaundemetes by the,
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;
My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;
My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my words, and hide my commaundements with thee;
My sonne, if thou wylt receaue my wordes, and lay vp my commaundementes within thee,
My son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee;
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee;
Mi sone, if thou resseyuest my wordis, `and hidist myn heestis anentis thee;
My son, if you will receive my words, And lay up my commandments with you;
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you,
My child, listen to what I say, and treasure my commands.
My son, if you receive my sayings and store up my teachings within you,
My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,
My son, if thou wilt receive my sayings, and, my commandments, wilt treasure up by thee;
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
Good friend, take to heart what I'm telling you; collect my counsels and guard them with your life. Tune your ears to the world of Wisdom; set your heart on a life of Understanding. That's right—if you make Insight your priority, and won't take no for an answer, Searching for it like a prospector panning for gold, like an adventurer on a treasure hunt, Believe me, before you know it Fear-of- God will be yours; you'll have come upon the Knowledge of God.
My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
if: Proverbs 1:3, Proverbs 4:1, Proverbs 7:1, John 12:47, John 12:48, 1 Timothy 1:15
hide: Proverbs 3:1, Proverbs 4:20-22, Proverbs 6:21, Deuteronomy 6:6-9, Job 23:12, Psalms 119:9-11, Matthew 13:44, Luke 2:19, Luke 2:51, Luke 9:44
Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:3 - cheweth Deuteronomy 11:19 - General Deuteronomy 30:13 - go over the sea Deuteronomy 33:3 - shall receive Joshua 1:8 - thou shalt 1 Chronicles 28:8 - keep 1 Chronicles 28:9 - if thou seek Nehemiah 8:13 - the second Job 22:22 - receive Psalms 25:8 - teach Psalms 34:11 - I will Psalms 119:11 - Thy word Psalms 119:66 - Teach me Proverbs 1:8 - My son Proverbs 4:21 - in the Proverbs 5:1 - attend Proverbs 18:1 - seeketh Proverbs 19:8 - he that keepeth Proverbs 19:20 - receive Proverbs 23:15 - My son Proverbs 24:14 - when Proverbs 28:7 - keepeth Daniel 12:10 - but the wise Hosea 6:3 - if Matthew 2:9 - the star Matthew 6:33 - seek Matthew 13:19 - and understandeth Luke 11:36 - the whole John 5:38 - ye have John 8:32 - ye shall John 17:6 - they John 17:8 - received Acts 8:28 - and sitting Acts 17:11 - they received 1 Thessalonians 2:11 - as 2 Thessalonians 2:10 - they received Hebrews 2:1 - the more
Cross-References
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation.
These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up--for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Cush.
for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.
It is a sign for ever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My son,.... These are either the continuation of the words of Solomon to his son Rehoboam; or to anyone that came to him for instruction, or was within the reach of being taught by him; whom he addresses in this tender and affectionate manner, in order to gain his attention to what he was about to say: or else they are the words of Wisdom, or Christ, continued, thus bespeaking: his children and people; and giving them some very wholesome counsel and advice, backed with the most powerful and prevailing arguments;
if thou wilt receive my words; or doctrines: the doctrines of the Gospel, relating to the person, office, and grace of Christ, and salvation by him; such as the words of peace, pardon, righteousness, and life; which are to be received, not as the word of man, but as the word of God; and with all readiness of mind and willingness, as they were by the Bereans; and most gladly, as by the three thousand pricked to the heart under Peter's sermon; and as they are and will be by every sensible sinner;
and hide my commandments with thee; in the heart; so as to have a high esteem of them, and a hearty affection and value for them; retain them in memory, and frequently think of them and meditate upon them, and constantly observe them; see Psalms 119:11.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Now in the divine order comes the promise Proverbs 2:5. The conditions of its fulfillment are stated in Proverbs 2:1-4 in four sets of parallel clauses, each with some shade of distinct meaning. Thus, not “receiving” only, but “hiding” or treasuring up - not the “ear” only, but the “heart” - not the mere “cry,” but the eager “lifting up the voice.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER II
The teacher promises his pupil the highest advantages, if he
will follow the dictates of wisdom, 1-9.
He shall be happy in its enjoyment, 10, 11;
shall be saved from wicked men, 12-15;
and from the snares of bad women, 16-19;
be a companion of the good and upright; and be in safety in the
land, when the wicked shall be rooted out of it, 20-22.
NOTES ON CHAP. II.
Verse Proverbs 2:1. My son — Here the tutor still continues to instruct his disciple.
Hide my commandments with thee — Treasure them up in thy heart, and then act from them through the medium of thy affections. He who has the rule of his duty only in his Bible and in his head, is not likely to be a steady, consistent character; his heart is not engaged, and his obedience, in any case, can be only forced, or done from a sense of duty: it is not the obedience of a loving, dutiful child, to an affectionate father. But he who has the word of God in his heart, works from his heart; his heart goes with him in all things, and he delights to do the will of his heavenly Father, because his law is in his heart. See Proverbs 3:3.
