Proverbs 24:31 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 24:31

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

BSB

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ASV

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.

KJV

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

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Commentary

2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2027: “The Sluggard's Farm” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1888)

NO DOUBT Solomon was sometimes glad to lay aside the robes of State, escape from the forms of court and go through the country unknown. On one occasion, when he was doing so, he looked over the broken wall of a little estate which belonged to a farmer of his country. This estate consisted of a piece of plowed land and a vineyard. One glance showed him that it was owned by a sluggard who neglected it, for the weeds had grown right plentifully and covered all the face of the ground. From this Solomon gathered instruction.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3381: “The Broken Fence” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1913)

THIS lazy man did no hurt to his fellow men—he was not a thief, nor a ruffian, nor a meddler in anybody else's business. He did not trouble himself about other men's concerns, for he did not even attend to his own—it required too much exertion. He was not grossly vicious. He had not energy enough to care for that. He was one who liked to take things easily. He always let well enough alone and, for the that matter, he let ill alone, too, as the nettles and the thistles in his garden plainly proved!

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהִנֵּ֨ה	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
עָ֘לָ֤ה	'a.Lah	it had grown up	H5927 →
כֻלּ֨וֹ׀	khu.Lo	all of it	H3605 →
קִמְּשֹׂנִ֗ים	ki.me.so.Nim	thorns	H7063 →
כָּסּ֣וּ	ka.Su	they were covered	H3680 →
פָנָ֣יו	fa.Nav	surface<s> its	H6440 →
חֲרֻלִּ֑ים	cha.ru.Lim	nettles	H2738 →
וְגֶ֖דֶר	ve.Ge.der	and [the] wall of	H1444 →
אֲבָנָ֣יו	'a.va.Nav	stones its	H68 →
נֶהֱרָֽסָה׃	ne.he.Ra.sah	it was broken down	H2040 →

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

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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
Jeremiah 4:3
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
leads to
- Hosea 10:12
  Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
- Luke 8:14
  The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does…
- Luke 8:7
  Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings.
- Galatians 6:7–8
  Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
- Matthew 13:7
  Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
Through
Ecclesiastes 10:18
Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.
leads to
- Proverbs 14:1
  Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
- Proverbs 24:30–34
  I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
Through
Proverbs 22:13
The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”
leads to
- Proverbs 26:13–16
  The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”

About Proverbs

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

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02Original language & word study

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06About Proverbs

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Where the connections lead

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