“ To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. ”
Compare the marginal reference. The words have a special significance as coming from the king who had built the temple, and had offered sacrifices that could not be numbered for multitude” 1 Kings...
Proverbs 21:1 . watercourses: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which could be diverted in any direction at will. Prove...
justice . righteousness. more acceptable, &c. Illustrations: Saul ( 1 Samuel 13:10-13 ; 1 Samuel 15:22 ); Israel ( Jeremiah 7:22 ; Jeremiah 7:23 . Amos 5:21-24 ; Amos 5:21-24 ); Judah ( Is...
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. To do justice and judgment - The words of Samuel to Saul. See note on 1 Samuel 15:23 .
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. To do justice and judgment (is) more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Moral precepts are the end, positive prec...
1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon ( Isaiah 58:11 ).
To do justice and judgment, &c — See above on Proverbs 10:2 . Is more acceptable than sacrifice. — See above on 15:8.
CHAPTER 22 WINE "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."- Proverbs 21:17 THE Septuagint translation has an interesting addition to the prov...
Verse Proverbs 21:4 . The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud heart, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man t...
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. An high look, and a proud heart, and the plow...
To do justice and judgment ,.... The moral duties of religion, what is holy, just, and good, which the law requires; what is agreeably to both tables, piety towards God, and justice to men; that whi...
To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. Ver. 3. Is more acceptable to the Lord. ] Qui non vult ex rapina holocaustum, as heathens could see and say by the lig...
Every way of a man , &c. See on Proverbs 16:2 , where this same thing was declared. To do justice and judgment The conscientious performance of all our duties to men; is more acceptable to t...
3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the L ORD than sacrifice. Here, 1. It is implied that many deceive themselves with a conceit that, if they offer sacrifice, that...
Justice and judgment; the conscientious performance of all our duties to men. Than sacrifice; than the most costly outward services offered to God, joined with the neglect of our moral duties to...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 21:3 THE MORE ACCEPTABLE SACRIFICE I. The sacrifices of the Mosaic law were acceptable to God as ceremonial signs . They were instituted by God, and therefore He ex...
Proverbs 21:1 . The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will. The allusion is probably to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn fi...
To do Justice and Judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Ceremonial and moral duties This text is a complete and independent sentence. Confirm the proposition deduced from the...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water. We are to think of the little channels used for irrigation. As these are altogether under the...
v. 3. To do justice and judgment, to exercise the principles of righteousness and justice in all our dealings, is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice, for all outward acts of worship are h...
1 Samuel 15:22 ; Hosea 6:6 ; Isaiah 1:11-17 ; Jeremiah 7:21-23 ; Micah 6:6-8 ; Mark 12:33 ; Proverbs 15:8 ; Psalms 50:8