Ecclesiastes 10:17 BSB

Ecclesiastes 10:17

Blessed are you, O land whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.

BSB

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ASV

Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

KJV

Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Ecclesiastes (420)

"Woe to you, O land, whose king acts as an adolescent, and whose ministers dine in the morning. Happy are you, O land, whose king is a man of dignity, and whose ministers dine at the proper time- in strength and not in drunkenness. "He seems in fact here to reprove the young king and to condemn indulgent judges, which in another place has been called wisdom that is weakened by age, and even in other places mature age which is made frail by pleasure.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles,.... Or "heroes" (z), called "Hhorim" in the Hebrew, which signifies "white"; either from the white garment they wore, or rather from the purity and ingenuity of their minds and manners; being illustrious persons, not only by birth and education, but in their lives and actions.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

When thy king is the son of nobles - uiov eleuyerwn, the son of freemen; persons well acquainted with the principles of civil liberty, and who rule according to them - Septuagint. Such a one as comes to the throne in a legitimate way, from an ancient regal family, whose right to the throne is incontestable. It requires such a long time to establish a regal right, that the state is in continual danger from pretenders and usurpers, where the king is not the son of nobles.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אַשְׁרֵ֣יךְ	'ash.Reikh	how blessed [are] you	H835 →
אֶ֔רֶץ	'E.retz	O land	H776 →
שֶׁמַּלְכֵּ֖ךְ	she.mal.Kekh	that king your	H4428 →
בֶּן־	ben-	[is] a son of	H1121 →
חוֹרִ֑ים	cho.Rim	nobles	H2715 →
וְשָׂרַ֙יִךְ֙	ve.sa.Ra.yikh	and princes your	H8269 →
בָּעֵ֣ת	ba.'Et	at the appropriate time	H6256 →
יֹאכֵ֔לוּ	yo.Khe.lu	they eat	H398 →
בִּגְבוּרָ֖ה	big.vu.Rah	for strength	H1369 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
בַשְּׁתִֽי׃	va.she.Ti	for <the> drinking	H8358 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H6256baetat the appropriate time296×

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 5:11
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
leads to
- Proverbs 23:29–30
  Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
- Romans 13:13
  Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
- Proverbs 20:1
  Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Through
Jeremiah 30:21
Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own…
leads to
- Numbers 16:5
  Then he said to Korah and all his followers, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will reveal who belongs to Him and who is holy, and He will bring that person near to Himself. The one…
- Ezekiel 34:23–24
  I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.
- Ezekiel 37:24
  My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.
- Acts 5:31
  God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
- Mark 11:9–10

About Ecclesiastes

King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Ecclesiastes

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

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