Proverbs 25:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. ”

• Proverbs 25:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  A new section. Copied out - In the sense of a transfer from oral tradition to writing.

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  These [are] also proverbs of Solomon, which the (a) men of Hezekiah king of Judah (b) copied out. (a) Whom Hezekiah appointed for this purpose. (b) That is, gathered out of various books of Solomon...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  First Division. In general character this division shows a resemblance to the Sayings of the Wise, containing a number of quatrains and synthetic couplets, and but few antithetic couplets. Prov...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  of Solomon . by Solomon, as author: i.e. written by him. Characterizing this section of the book. the men of Hezekiah. Evidently. special guild of scribes employed in the work of editing and putt...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. These are also proverbs of Solomon - In my old MS. Bible, this verse concludes the preceding chapter. It seem...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  These are also proverbs of Solomon— To what has been said in the introduction to this book, may be added with great profit to the reader, Bishop Lowth's 24th Prelection. By the men of Hezekiah, m...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. Proverbs 25:1-28 . Here begins the third part of the whole book: a selection from the 3,000 proverbs wh...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  By the men of Hezekiah the author of this v. doubtless means literary men at the king's court. These, he says, transcribed the following proverbs from some other collection or collections. It will...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  XXV. 7. THE THIRD GREAT DIVISION OF THE BOOK; ANOTHER COLLECTION OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS, CHIEFLY PARABOLIC IN CHARACTER (Proverbs 25-29). (1) These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 26 THE KING "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. The heaven for height and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearch...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Words Fitly Spoken Proverbs 25:1-14 This collection of proverbs was made. 250years after the time of Solomon by the scribes of King Hezekiah. The glory of God is too great to be disclosed to th...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now come to the second collection of the proverbs of Solomon. These, as the title specifically declares, constitute a posthumous collection gathered in the days of Hezekiah. Speaking generally, th...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CONTENTS. Here are similar proverbs to what were given before; but as the title of them observes that they were copied by the men of Hezekiah, they are particularly marked from those we have already...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  These [are] are also proverbs of Solomon ,.... These that follow to the end of the book, as well as those which go before. Here begins a "third", some say a "fourth" part of this book. The Targum an...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  These [are] also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. Ver. 1. These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men. ] Solomon "hath his thousand out of this his vi...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  These Which are contained in this and the following Chapter s; are also the proverbs of Solomon Lessons on piety and virtue, sententiously delivered by Solomon, and collected out of his works by...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  In This CHAPTER, forming the first section, necessarily affirms the basic principles of true unity, which is absolutely essential to recovery. For departure is the very breeding-ground of division, -...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        1 These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.       This verse is the title of this latter collection of Solomon's proverbs, for he sought ou...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  PROVERBS Chapter s 25 Observations about kings, Proverbs 25:1-7 . A caution against contentions, Proverbs 25:8 ; against revealing of secrets, Proverbs 25:9 . The reason of this caution,...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  With this chapter begins the fourth main division of this book, consisting, as its introductory words inform us, of sayings and perhaps writings of Solomon, which were placed together in their presen...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 25:1 . These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah copied out. Solomon wrote three thousand proverbs, and a thousand and five songs. 1 Kings 4:32 . The supplement to th...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Verse 1-29:27 Part VI. SECOND GREAT COLLECTION OF SOLOMONIC PROVERBS , gathered by "the men of Hezekiah," in which wisdom is set forth as the greatest blessing to the...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  These are also proverbs of Solomon, maxims composed by the wise son of David, by inspiration of God, which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, copied out, evidently from collections where they were...

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 4:32 ; Ecclesiastes 12:9 ; Hosea 1:1 ; Isaiah 1:1 ; Isaiah 36:22 ; Isaiah 37:2 ; Micah 1:1 ; Proverbs 1:1 ; Proverbs 10:1

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• Proverbs 25:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  These — Which are contained in this and the following chapters. The men — Certain persons appointed by Hezekiah for that work. Many of them are political precepts, and such as in a special manner c...

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