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Text -- Proverbs 24:13 (NET)

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24:13 Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Pro 24:13 - -- 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.

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.

JFB: Pro 24:13-14 - -- As delicious food whets the appetite, so should the rewards of wisdom excite us to seek it.

As delicious food whets the appetite, so should the rewards of wisdom excite us to seek it.

Clarke: Pro 24:13 - -- And the honey-comb - I have often had occasion to remark how much finer the flavour of honey is in the honey-comb than it is after it has been expre...

And the honey-comb - I have often had occasion to remark how much finer the flavour of honey is in the honey-comb than it is after it has been expressed from it, and exposed to the action of the air. But it has been asserted that the honey-comb is never eaten; it must be by those who have no acquaintance with the apiary. I have seen the comb with its contained honey eaten frequently, and of it I have repeatedly partaken. And that our Lord ate it, is evident from Luk 24:42. Nor can any man who has not eaten it in this way feel the full force of the allusions to the honey-comb and its sweetness in several parts of the sacred writings. See 1Sa 14:27; Psa 19:10; Pro 5:3; Pro 16:24; Pro 27:7; Son 4:11; Son 5:1; and the place before us.

TSK: Pro 24:13 - -- eat : Pro 25:16, Pro 25:27; Son 5:1; Isa 7:15; Mat 3:4 to thy taste : Heb. upon thy palate

eat : Pro 25:16, Pro 25:27; Son 5:1; Isa 7:15; Mat 3:4

to thy taste : Heb. upon thy palate

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Pro 24:13 - -- Honey entered largely into the diet of Hebrew children Isa 7:15, so that it was as natural an emblem for the purest and simplest wisdom, as the "sin...

Honey entered largely into the diet of Hebrew children Isa 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 Testament writers. The learner hears what seems to be a rule of diet - then Pro 24:14 the parable is explained.

Poole: Pro 24:13 - -- 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 usu...

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 Deu 8:8 Jud 14:18 1Sa 14:25 .

Haydock: Pro 24:13 - -- Honey. Of wisdom, which is most delicious. (Menochius)

Honey. Of wisdom, which is most delicious. (Menochius)

Gill: Pro 24:13 - -- 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 chil...

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 nourishing, strengthening, and refreshing to them, as Samson, Jonathan, John the Baptist, and others; and is good for medicine, is healthful and salutary, and useful in many diseases: it is said m to conduce much to prolong life and preserve from diseases; it has been observed that those who have much used it have lived to a great age;

and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste; because it is so, as all honey is, and especially that which is immediately squeezed or drops from the honeycomb; this is said not so much on account of honey, and the eating of that, as for what follows concerning the knowledge of wisdom, which is comparable to it for pleasure and profit; see Pro 16:24 n.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 24:13 The twenty-sixth saying teaches that one should develop wisdom because it has a profitable future. The saying draws on the image of honey; its health-...

Geneva Bible: Pro 24:13 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 tas...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

MHCC: Pro 24:13-14 - --We are quickened to the study of wisdom by considering both the pleasure and the profit of it. All men relish things that are sweet to the palate; but...

Matthew Henry: Pro 24:13-14 - -- We are here quickened to the study of wisdom by the consideration both of the pleasure and the profit of it. 1. It will be very pleasant. We eat ho...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 24:13-14 - -- The proverb now following stands in no obvious relation with the preceding. But in both a commencement is made with two lines, which contain, in the...

Constable: Pro 22:17--25:1 - --III. WISE SAYINGS 22:17--24:34 A third major section of the Book of Proverbs begins with 22:17. This is clear fr...

Constable: Pro 22:17--24:23 - --A. Thirty Sayings of the Wise 22:17-24:22 Many scholars have called attention to the similarities betwee...

Constable: Pro 23:13--24:23 - --The last 20 sayings 23:13-24:22 23:13-14 The sage again advocated discipline. Beating with a rod is not the only form of discipline advocated in Prove...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 24 (Chapter Introduction) Overview

Poole: Proverbs 24 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 24 Their company or manner of life.

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

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