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Proverbs 20
Book of
Proverbs
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is
deceived thereby is not wise.
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Nobody listens to a drunk, some fools will
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Mocker = scoffer
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Raging = a brawler
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Is deceived = to go astray
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1 Tim 5:23 Drink no longer water, but
use a little wine for thy stomach's
sake and thine often infirmities.
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God said, drink a little, not a gallon
2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to
anger sinneth against his own soul.
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Sinneth = bear the blame, commit [sin], by
fault, harm he hath done, offer cause, make,
trespass.
3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be
meddling.
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A fool is always starting trouble
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Meddling = breaking out
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If you can cease from strife = you will have
peace
4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he
beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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Sluggard = lazy person
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Plow, plowing always done during the early rains
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Cold = Autumn
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Cold put for Autumn, and Autumn put for
abundance of fruit possessed at that time
5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of
understanding will draw it out.
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Deep water is real still, a wise person knows
where to find understanding
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A person with wisdom will
know, where to find knowledge, in God's word
6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man
who can find?
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If you tell someone you're going to do
something, do it
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Keep your word, and you're going to be
successful
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His word is better than a contract
7 The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after
him.
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If you teach your children what's right, they're
going to do what's right; as they become adults
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Blessed = happy
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Man walketh in his integrity = This is a person
that has a job, and they will work.
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A lazy person works hard at not doing anything.
8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil
with his eyes.
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A good king does what's right
9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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Ecclesiastes 7:20 For there is not a just man
upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
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Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge:
but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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Can = is able to
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I am Pure, illustration: Job before he learned
his lesson (Job 9:17)
10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike
abomination to the Lord.
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He's has two sets of weights
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One to buy from and another to sell, He cheats
people
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God doesn't like it, it's
abomination to the Lord
11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his
work be pure, and whether it be right.
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Pure = accurate
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Right = correct
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Your actions tells people what kind of person
you are.
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The two sets of balances = one to buy and one to
sell
12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even
both of them.
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If you're studying God's word and listening,
God's going to give you wisdom.
13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou
shalt be satisfied with bread.
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This is talking about a lazy person.
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He's not
talking about the disabled people
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Come to poverty = become dispossessed
14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his
way, then he boasteth.
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This is a person that tries to rip people off,
then he goes and boasteth about how he cheated
to get it.
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Naught = very bad
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If you cheated people, it's not long before you
lose more than you cheated someone
15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge
are a precious jewel.
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This is someone with wisdom and knowledge
16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of
him for a strange woman.
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Pledge of him, who has become security for a
false teacher
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Strange woman = false teacher
17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be
filled with gravel.
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Bread of deceit = bread gained by deceit
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Bread put by of part, for all kinds of food
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Deceit = lying
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Filled with gravel; or grit, implying utmost
disappointment
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It's better to be honest
18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make
war.
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It's wise to keep people safe, if it means to go
to war
19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore
meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
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Don't be around people that mock people
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Meddle = mingle, mix thyself up, not same word
in verse 3
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Lips put by of cause for the flattery spoken by
them
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They love to hear people that talk about someone
20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in
obscure darkness.
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This is God's first promise to you, if you honour
your father and mother, you will have a longer
life
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Ex 20:12 Honour thy father and thy
mother: that thy days may be
long upon the land which the Lord thy
God giveth thee.
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Curseth = revileth
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Lamp shall be put out, denoting that he shall
die childless
21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end
thereof shall not be blessed.
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He rips off his own family, he tries to take
their brother or sister inheritance
22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he
shall save thee.
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God's going to take care of them
23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance
is not good.
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This false balance, mention twice in this chapter
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God's doesn't like it, when people try to cheat
people.
24 Man's goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own
way?
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1st Man = Geber = a strong man's, mighty
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2nd Man = Adam = ruddy, common man
25 It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after
vows to make inquiry.
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Don't mislead God's children, It's better to not
say anything
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Devoureth = rashly promises
26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
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A wise king will do what's right
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Wicked = lawless
27 The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward
parts of the belly.
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If you follow God, the Holy Spirit is within you
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Spirit = breath
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Candle = lamp or light
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The belly, put by for the heart, and the heart
for its thoughts
28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by
mercy.
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Mercy = loving kindness, grace or favour
29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men
is the gray head.
30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward
parts of the belly.
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God demands punished, when someone breaks the
law
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Cleanseth away = is cleansing = though = it be
an evil
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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