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Selected Verse: Proverbs 3:9 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 3:9 |
Strong Concordance |
Honour [03513] the LORD [03068] with thy substance [01952], and with the firstfruits [07225] of all thine increase [08393]: |
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King James |
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: |
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] |
| (Compare Pro 11:25; Exo 23:19; Deu 18:4; Isa 32:8; Co2 9:13). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| "Substance" points to capital, "increase" to revenue. The Septuagint as if to guard against ill-gotten gains being offered as an atonement for the ill-getting, inserts the quaifying words, "honor the Lord from thy righteous labors." |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
9 Honour Jahve with thy wealth,
And with the first-fruits of all thine increase:
10 Then shall thy barns be filled with plenty,
And thy vats overflow with must.
It may surprise us that the Chokma, being separated from the ceremonial law, here commends the giving of tithes. But in the first place, the consciousness of the duty of giving tithes is older than the Mosaic law, Gen 28:22; in this case, the giving of tithes is here a general ethical expression. עשּׂר and מעשׂר do not occur in the Book of Proverbs; in the post-biblical phraseology the tithes are called חלק הגּבהּ, the portion of the Most High. כּבּד, as the Arab. waḳḳra, to make heavy, then to regard and deal with as weighty and solemn (opp. קלּל, to regard and treat as light, from קלל = Arab. hân, to be light). הון, properly lightness in the sense of aisance, opulency, forms with כּבּד an oxymoron (fac Jovam gravem de levitate tua), but one aimed at by the author neither at Pro 1:13 nor here. מן (in מהונך and 'מר, Pro 3:9) is in both cases partitive, as in the law of the Levitical tenths, Lev 27:30, and of the Challa (heave-offering of dough), Num 15:21, where also ראשׁית (in Heb 7:4, ἀκροθίνια) occurs in a similar sense, cf. Num 18:12 (in the law of the Theruma or wave-offering of the priests), as also תּבוּאה in the law of the second tenths, Deu 14:22, cf. Num 18:30 (in the law of the tenths of the priests).
Pro 3:10
With ו apodosis imperativi the conclusion begins. שׂבע, satisfaction, is equivalent to fulness, making satisfied, and that, too, richly satisfied; תּירושׁ ;deif also is such an accusative, as verbs of filling govern it, for פּרץ, to break through especially to overflow, signifies to be or become overflowingly full (Job 1:10). אסם (from אסם, Chald. אסן, Syr. âsan, to lay up in granaries) is the granary, of the same meaning as the Arab. âkhzan (from khazan = חסן, Isa 23:18, recondere), whence the Spanish magazen, the French and German magazin. יקב (from יקב, Arab. wakab, to be hollow) is the vat or tub into which the must flows from the wine-press (גּת or פּוּרה), λάκκος or ὑπολήνιον. Cf. the same admonition and promise in the prophetic statement of Mal 3:10-12. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Substance - Lay out thy estate not to please thyself, but to glorify God. First - fruits - Or, with the chief or best; which answers to the first - fruits under the law. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Honor the Lord with thy substance - The מנחה Minchah or gratitude-offering to God, commanded under the law, is of endless obligation. It would be well to give a portion of the produce of every article by which we get our support to God, or to the poor, the representatives of Christ. This might be done either in kind, or by the worth in money. Whatever God sends us in the way of secular prosperity, there is a portion of it always for the poor, and for God's cause. When that portion is thus disposed of, the rest is sanctified; when it is withheld, God's curse is upon the whole. Give to the poor, and God will give to thee. |
13 Whiles by [1223] the experiment [1382] of this [5026] ministration [1248] they glorify [1392] God [2316] for [1909] your [5216] professed [3671] subjection [5292] unto [1519] the gospel [2098] of Christ [5547], and [2532] for your liberal [572] distribution [2842] unto [1519] them [846], and [2532] unto [1519] all [3956] men;
8 But the liberal [05081] deviseth [03289] liberal things [05081]; and by liberal things [05081] shall he stand [06965].
4 The firstfruit [07225] also of thy corn [01715], of thy wine [08492], and of thine oil [03323], and the first [07225] of the fleece [01488] of thy sheep [06629], shalt thou give [05414] him.
19 The first [07225] of the firstfruits [01061] of thy land [0127] thou shalt bring [0935] into the house [01004] of the LORD [03068] thy God [0430]. Thou shalt not seethe [01310] a kid [01423] in his mother's [0517] milk [02461].
25 The liberal [01293] soul [05315] shall be made fat [01878]: and he that watereth [07301] shall be watered [03384] also himself.
10 Bring [0935] ye all the tithes [04643] into the storehouse [0214], that there may be meat [02964] in mine house [01004], and prove [0974] me now herewith [02063], saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], if I will not open [06605] you the windows [0699] of heaven [08064], and pour you out [07324] a blessing [01293], that there shall not be room enough [01767] to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke [01605] the devourer [0398] for your sakes, and he shall not destroy [07843] the fruits [06529] of your ground [0127]; neither shall your vine [01612] cast her fruit [07921] before the time in the field [07704], saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635].
12 And all nations [01471] shall call you blessed [0833]: for ye shall be a delightsome [02656] land [0776], saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635].
18 And her merchandise [05504] and her hire [0868] shall be holiness [06944] to the LORD [03068]: it shall not be treasured [0686] nor laid up [02630]; for her merchandise [05504] shall be for them that dwell [03427] before [06440] the LORD [03068], to eat [0398] sufficiently [07654], and for durable [06266] clothing [04374].
10 Hast not thou made an hedge [07753] about him, and about [01157] his house [01004], and about all that he hath on every side [05439]? thou hast blessed [01288] the work [04639] of his hands [03027], and his substance [04735] is increased [06555] in the land [0776].
10 So shall thy barns [0618] be filled [04390] with plenty [07647], and thy presses [03342] shall burst out [06555] with new wine [08492].
30 Therefore thou shalt say [0559] unto them, When ye have heaved [07311] the best [02459] thereof from it, then it shall be counted [02803] unto the Levites [03881] as the increase [08393] of the threshingfloor [01637], and as the increase [08393] of the winepress [03342].
22 Thou shalt truly [06237] tithe [06237] all the increase [08393] of thy seed [02233], that the field [07704] bringeth forth [03318] year [08141] by year [08141].
12 All the best [02459] of the oil [03323], and all the best [02459] of the wine [08492], and of the wheat [01715], the firstfruits [07225] of them which they shall offer [05414] unto the LORD [03068], them have I given [05414] thee.
4 Now [1161] consider [2334] how great [4080] this man [3778] was, unto whom [3739] even [2532] the patriarch [3966] Abraham [11] gave [1325] the tenth [1181] of [1537] the spoils [205].
21 Of the first [07225] of your dough [06182] ye shall give [05414] unto the LORD [03068] an heave offering [08641] in your generations [01755].
30 And all the tithe [04643] of the land [0776], whether of the seed [02233] of the land [0776], or of the fruit [06529] of the tree [06086], is the LORD'S [03068]: it is holy [06944] unto the LORD [03068].
9 Honour [03513] the LORD [03068] with thy substance [01952], and with the firstfruits [07225] of all thine increase [08393]:
13 We shall find [04672] all precious [03368] substance [01952], we shall fill [04390] our houses [01004] with spoil [07998]:
22 And this stone [068], which I have set [07760] for a pillar [04676], shall be God's [0430] house [01004]: and of all that thou shalt give [05414] me I will surely [06237] give the tenth [06237] unto thee.