Proverbs 3:2 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 3:2

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

KJV

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ASV

For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee.

WEB

for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.

YLT

For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.

DBT

for length of days, and years of life, and peace shall they add to thee.

About this book

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Cross-references

21 verses on the floor

Ephesians 6:1–3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Psalms 91:16
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Proverbs 4:10
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Proverbs 9:11
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
Psalms 128:6
Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

As grace increases, peace shall increase; and of the increase of Christ's government and peace, in the heart as well as in the world, there shall be no end. Great and growing peace have those that love the law. We must have a continual regard to God's promises, which go along with his precepts, and are to be received, and retained, with them (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(4.) Our wills and affections must be subject to them and must in every thing conform to them. Not only our heads, but our hearts, must keep God's commandments; in them, as in the ark of the testimony, both the tables of the law must be deposited. To encourage us to submit ourselves to all the restraints and injunctions of the divine law, we are assured (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PRO 3:2PSA 91:16 PRO 3:16
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
PRO 3:2PSA 91:16 PSA 21:4
PRO 3:2PRO 9:11 DEU 6:2
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 3:2PSA 91:16 PSA 50:23
PRO 3:2PRO 9:11 PRO 10:27
PRO 3:2PSA 128:6 JOB 42:16
PRO 3:2PSA 91:16 ISA 65:20-22
PRO 3:2PSA 128:6 GEN 50:23

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