Notes from Bible in 5 Proverbs
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Notes on Bible in 5
- 1 Kings 4:29-33
29 God gave Solomon very great wisdom, discernment, and breadth of understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore,
30 so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
31 He was wiser than anyone else, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, children of Mahol; his fame spread throughout all the surrounding nations.
32 He composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.
33 He would speak of trees, from the cedar that is in the Lebanon to the hyssop that grows in the wall; he would speak of animals, and birds, and reptiles, and fish.
Chapter 1-9 introduction to Wisdom
Hebrew - Wisdom
- Khokhmah -
10 Speaches from a father to a son
Forms the moral logic of the book
Wisdom Literature itself
Not law
Not prophecy
Wisdom has accumulated insight of God’s People
4 poems from Lady Wisdom
Poetically personified as a woman
woven into the fabric of the universe
generous, justice, sexual integrity
We live in God’s moral Universe
When we live wisely we align ourselves with God
10-29 hundreds of ancient proverbs
Filtered through the lens
Proverbs = Probabilities
if you fear God, you will likely have a good fortune
They are not promises
6 Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray.
27 The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.
Proverbs focus on the general rules not on the exceptions (Job and Ecclesiastes are all about the exceptions)
30 - poems from Agur
2 Surely I am too stupid to be human; I do not have human understanding.
3 I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the holy ones.
Model reader of the book of Proverbs
31 - Lemuel
1 The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him:
2 No, my son! No, son of my womb! No, son of my vows!
3 Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings.
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to desire strong drink;
5 or else they will drink and forget what has been decreed, and will pervert the rights of all the afflicted.
6 Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;
7 let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.
8 Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute.
9 Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Advice that he got from his mom
Someone who stands strong and powerful
Book closes by words from a mother to her son about a woman who lives wisely
The Book of Proverbs is about living wise and living Well in God’s World
