Proverbs 3:2
for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
BSB
ASV
For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee.
KJV
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
For length of days, and long life,.... Or, "years of life", or "lives" (f); a long life of usefulness and comfort here, and eternal life hereafter: the law of Moses promised a long life to the observers of it; but the Gospel of Christ brings an immortal life to light and promises to all believers in him that they shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life.
For length of days - Three eminent blessings are promised here: 1. ארך ימים orech yamim, long days; 2. שנות חיים shenoth chaiyim, years of lives; 3. שלום shalom, prosperity; i.e. health, long life, and abundance.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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
Psalms 91:16With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
leads to
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
He asked You for life, and You granted it— length of days, forever and ever.
He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails…
Through
Proverbs 9:11For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
leads to
so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.
Through
Psalms 128:6that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
leads to
After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
