Proverbs 7:24 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 7:24

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

KJV

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ASV

Now therefore, mysons, hearken unto me, And attend to the words of my mouth.

WEB

Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

YLT

And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

DBT

And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

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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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Psalms 34:11
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Proverbs 5:7
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Proverbs 8:32–33
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
1 John 2:1
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

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3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, ch. vi.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), To keep thee from the strange woman; that is it he aims at; only there he had said, Keep thy father's commandment, here (which comes all to one), Keep my commandments, for he speaks to us as unto sons. He speaks in God's name; for it is God's commandments that we are to keep, his words, his law.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The inferential admonition is followed (Pr 7:26, 27), by a more general allegation of the evils of this vice. Even the mightiest fail to resist her deathly allurements.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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