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Selected Verse: Proverbs 5:14 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 5:14 |
King James |
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| evil--for affliction, as in Gen 19:20; Gen 49:15. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The conscience-stricken sinner had been "almost" given up to every form of evil in the sight of the whole assembly of fellow-townsmen; "almost," therefore, condemned to the death which that assembly might inflict Lev 20:10; Deu 22:22. The public scandal of the sin is brought in as its last aggravating feature. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| A moment - In how little a time am I now come into remediless misery! Assembly - And that in the congregation of Israel, where I was taught better things. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
I was almost in all evil - This vice, like a whirlpool, sweeps all others into its vortex.
In the midst of the congregation and assembly - In the mydel of the Curche and of the Synagoge - Old MS. Bible. Such persons, however sacred the place, carry about with them eyes full of adultery, which cannot cease from sin. |
15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.