Proverbs 8:10

Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. Receive my instruction, and not silver - A Hebrew idiom; receive my instruction in preference to silver.

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And not silver — Rather than silver.

¹⁰ Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 8:10

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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John Trapp Complete Commentary

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L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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