Proverbs 24:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: ”

Proverbs 24:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Honey entered largely into the diet of Hebrew children Isaiah 7:15 , so that it was as natural an emblem for the purest and simplest wisdom, as the “sincere milk of the word” was to the New Testam...
Proverbs 24:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

My son, eat thou (d) honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste: (d) As honey is sweet and pleasant to the taste, so wisdom is to the soul.
Proverbs 24:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 24:7 a. Lit. Wisdom is corals to the fool. RV involves a change m the text, which gives perhaps the best sense that can be made of an obviously corrupt stanza. Proverbs 24:9 . though...
Proverbs 24:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

My son. Confirming the Structure (p. 891).
Proverbs 24:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: And the honey-comb - I have often had occasion to remark how much finer the flavour of honey is in the...
Proverbs 24:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

My son, eat thou honey, &c.— It is well known in how high esteem honey was among the ancients for food, for drink, for medicine, for preserving of dead bodies, and particularly for infants. See...
Proverbs 24:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: Eat thou honey, because it is good (a gracious invitation to partake of the spiritual honey, Song...
Proverbs 24:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

5. Read, 'A wise man is better than a warrior, and a man of knowledge than a man of strength.'
Proverbs 24:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 25 FORGIVING "Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to...
Proverbs 24:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Warnings are uttered against envy, against the formation of evil companionships, against excess in passion, against all false exhilaration; and perperpetual attention to wisdom and earnest endeavor t...
Proverbs 24:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that...
Proverbs 24:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good ,.... It is good for food; there was plenty of it in Palestine, and it was eaten for food, not only by children, but grown persons; and was very nourishi...
Proverbs 24:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste: Ver. 13. My son, eat thou honey, because it is good. ] Profitable and pleasant, wholesome and tooths...
Proverbs 24:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

My son, eat thou honey This is not a command, but a concession, and is here expressed only to illustrate the following verse. Do not slight, much less nauseate, such precepts as these; but, as hone...
Proverbs 24:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: 14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then...
Proverbs 24:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This is not a command, but a concession, and is here expressed only to illustrate the following verse. Honey in those parts was excellent, and a usual and an acceptable food. See Deuteronomy 8:8...
Proverbs 24:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 24:14 . There shall be a reward , rather, “ there is a future ,” as in chap. Proverbs 23:18 . MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 24:13-14 HONEY AND WISDOM I. An analog...
Proverbs 24:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 24:1 . Be not envious against evil men. Similar thoughts occur in Psalms 37:1 ; Psalms 73 ; Proverbs 17:1 . Why should we envy the wicked? We are all going to lie in the common dust; t...
Proverbs 24:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul. Spiritual knowledge I. It is wholesome. “My son, eat thou honey, because it is good.” Honey was one of the choice productions of Canaan. It wa...
Proverbs 24:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 24:1 We return here to the more usual form, the tetrastich. Be not thou envious against evil men (see on Proverbs 23:17 , where a similar warning is given, and comp...
Proverbs 24:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 13. My son, eat thou honey because it is good, and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste, this figurative admonition serving to introduce the praise of the loveliness and agreeableness of t...
Proverbs 24:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 7:15 ; Matthew 3:4 ; Proverbs 25:16 ; Proverbs 25:27 ; Song of Solomon 5:1
Proverbs 24:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Eat — This is not a command, but a concession, and is only here expressed to illustrate the following verse. Honey in those parts was an usual food.

Proverbs 24:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 24:13 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Proverbs 24:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 24:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 24:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 24:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 24:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 24:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 24:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 24:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 24:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 24:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 24:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 24:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 24:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 24:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 24:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 24:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 24:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 24:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 24:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 24:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 24:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes