Proverbs 8:2 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 8:2

She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

KJV

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ASV

On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;

WEB

On the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand.

YLT

At the head of high places by the way, Between the paths she hath stood,

DBT

On the top of high places by the way, at the cross-paths she taketh her stand.

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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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5 verses on the floor

Proverbs 9:14
For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
Jeremiah 7:2
Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord.
Proverbs 9:3
She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
Song of Solomon 3:2
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Luke 14:21
So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

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

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The redeemer is the eternal Word and wisdom, the Logos. He is the Wisdom that speaks to the children of men in the former part of the chapter. All divine revelation passes through his hand, and centres in him; but of him as the personal Wisdom, the second person in the Godhead, in the judgment of many of the ancients, Solomon here speaks,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): She stands in the top of high places; it was from the top of Mount Sinai that the law was given, and Christ expounded it in a sermon upon the mount.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

High place - Where she may be best seen and heard. Paths - Where many paths meet, where there is a great concourse, and where travelers may need direction.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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H541026× in canon H479154× in canon

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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.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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