Proverbs Chapter 23

Proverbs 23 KJV

1. When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: [a]

[a] Like Jonathan with Saul (1 Sam. 20:25-33).

2. And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

3. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. [b]

[b] Like Amnon with Absalom (2 Sam. 13:28-29).

4. Labour not to be rich: [c] cease from thine own wisdom.

[c] 1 Tim. 6:10, 17.

5. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

6. Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, [1] neither desire thou his dainty meats:

[1] Verses 6-7 are a reference to the Antichrist. He has one eye (vs. 6) like a cyclops (Zech. 11:17). He will break a covenant with the Jews which he made at a table (Psa. 55:20-21; Dan. 9:27; 11:27).

7. For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

8. The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

9. Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

10. Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: [d]

[d] See note on Prov. 22:28.

11. For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

12. Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

13. Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

14. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

15. My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

16. Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

17. Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

18. For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

19. Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

20. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

21. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

22. Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

23. Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

24. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

25. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

26. My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

27. For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. [e]

[e] Prov. 2:16-19, 5:3-13, 7:6-27.

28. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

29. Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

30. They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

31. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, [2] when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. [f]

[2] Notice the admonition is not just to quit drinking wine; it’s to quit looking at it. If you look at it, you’ll smell it; if you smell it, you’ll taste it; if you taste it, you’ll drink it (see comments on 1 Tim. 5:23).

[f] See Eph. 5:18.

32. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

33. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

34. Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

35. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

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Note on Prov. 22:28 KJV

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. [i]

[i] Like Ahab (1 Kings 21:1-16).

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Comments on 1 Tim. 5:23 KJV

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities. [2]

[2] “The Acts of the Apostles” is over (see note on Acts 28:31), so Paul no longer has the apostolic signs (see note on Mark 16:17). He cannot heal Timothy by “laying on of hands” (see note on Mark 16:18) any more than he could heal “Trophimus” (2 Tim. 4:20). Hence, he recommends medicine with a little alcoholic content.

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 RRB notes: Psalm 111

Psalms 111 KJV

1. Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.

2. The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

3. His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

4. He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: [1] the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.

[1] The Lord “hath made his wonderful works to be remembered” by recording them in a Book, but that Book is only regarded by a small percentage of the world’s population during the Church Age (Mal. 3:16). The reference, here, is to the Millennium (vss. 6, 9). See Appendix 110.

5. He hath given meat unto them that fear him: [a] he will ever be mindful of his covenant. [b]

[a] See notes on Exod. 16:20; Psa. 74:14.

[b] See note on Psa. 105:10.

6. He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. [c]

[c] The Gentile nations will be given to the Jew as a gift (Isa. 60:5-16).

7. The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.

8. They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

9. He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: [d] holy and reverend is his name.

[d] See note on Psa. 105:10.

10. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: [e] a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

[e] Prov. 9:10; Job 28:28; Prov. 15:33, 1:7.

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Appendix 110 – The Restored Kingdom

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Note on Exodus 16:20 KJV

Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: [4] and Moses was wroth with them.

[4] For this remarkable “manna,” be sure to see Appendix 36 on the “Tithe.” The manna has to do with one of the heads on Satan. It is also connected with the origin of the “tithe” and (eventually) with the feeding of the Jews in the wilderness and cannibalism in the Tribulation (Isa. 6:13). The first time you saw the word tithe was in Genesis 14:20 in connection with Melchizedek at Jerusalem, where the cannibalism will take place.

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Note on Psa. 74:14 KJV

Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. [5]

[5] The reference is obviously to the “great red dragon” of Revelation 12:3 (see notes on Job 41:1, 41:31). In Ezekiel 29:3, Pharoah is given as a picture of this “dragon.” The problem is how could one of the heads of this dragon be “wounded to death” (Rev. 13:1-3) and that wound be converted into “manna” to feed a bunch of Jews in the wilderness? (See note on Exod. 16:20.) No one has ever explained the text, but in the Disney movie “Sleeping Beauty,” you’ll see a dragon being cut in the throat by a sword and bleeding “hoar frost” (Exod. 16:14; Rev. 12:14)!

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Note on Psalm 105:10 KJV

And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant: [2]

[2] The “covenant” discussed in verses 9-11 is a real-estate deal over a piece of property (see notes on Exod. 3:5 and Gen. 15:18). God Almighty made that agreement with a Bedouin sheep herder from Ur of the Chaldees (see note on Gen. 15:12). It was passed on to one son: Isaac; Ishmael was not included in that covenant. Isaac passed it on to only one of his sons: Jacob; the Jordanians from Esau have no claim to that covenant. But when Jacob passes on the covenant, he confirms it to all twelve of his sons and their families that make up the nation of Israel (Num. 23:9-10, 21:23, 23:2-9). The covenant was never given to any Arab or Moslem at all. It has nothing to do with any “spiritual Jew” (Rom. 2:29), “the Israel of God” (Gal. 6:16), Isaac as a type of Christ (Gal. 3:16), or the Christian (Gal. 4:28).

God’s final controversy with man is over the promise He made with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the twelve tribes (Isa. 60:11-12; Rev. 6:4, 8, 9:13-21, 14:14-20, 16:13-16, 19:11-21; Jer. 25:15-33; Ezek. 38-39, etc.). The United Nations has decreed that the Jews don’t get “Canaan.” The name of the land is to be changed to Palestine, and it is to be given to Mohammed and the Moslems. But the covenant God made with Israel is “an everlasting covenant”: it has no end. That ancient oath will rid the world of all 190 (+/-) nations along with all their religions and social and economic setups, and their remnants will serve Israel (Deut. 15:6; Isa. 14:2).

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