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Proverbs 2 — Sermon Preparation
A father's promise that earnest seeking of wisdom yields knowledge of God and protection from the evil man and the forbidden woman, while the wicked are uprooted. Below is a research summary for Proverbs 2, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 22
- verses
- 143 / 95
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 4
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
Proverbs 2 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֹרַח | ʼôrach | H734 | 5 | road, caravan |
| תָּבוּן | tâbûwn | H8394 | 4 | intelligence, argument |
| מַעְגָּל | maʻgâl | H4570 | 3 | track, rampart |
| דַּעַת | daʻath | H1847 | 3 | knowledge |
| דֶּרֶךְ | derek | H1870 | 4 | road, trodden |
| חׇכְמָה | chokmâh | H2451 | 3 | wisdom |
| תַּהְפֻּכָה | tahpukâh | H8419 | 2 | perversity, fraud |
How preachers through history handled this text
4 public-domain excerpts on Proverbs 2, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“If we are truly wise, we shall be careful to avoid all evil company and evil practices. When wisdom has dominion over us, then it not only fills the head, but enters into the heart, and will preserve, both against corruptions within and temptations without. The ways of sin are ways of darkness, uncomfortable and unsafe: what fools are those who leave the plain, pleasant, lightsome paths of uprightness, to walk in such ways! They take pleasure in sin; both in committing it, and in seeing others commit it. Every wise man will shun such company. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Proverbs 2:10–30 (Public Domain)
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