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Proverbs 24 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Proverbs 24, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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Hebrew words / lemmas
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classic sermon excerpts
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preachers & commentators

Proverbs 24 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
רָשָׁע râshâʻ H7563 5 wrong, bad
לֵב lêb H3820 4 heart, feelings
מְעַט mᵉʻaṭ H4592 3 little, few
רָעַע râʻaʻ H7489 3 spoil, make
יָדַע yâdaʻ H3045 4 know, seeing
שׁוּב shûwb H7725 4 turn, return
שָׂפָה sâphâh H8193 3 lip, language

How preachers through history handled this text

16 public-domain excerpts on Proverbs 24, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Matthew Henry 9 Spurgeon 4 Alexander MacLaren 2 John Wesley 1

“The sincere soul falls as a traveller may do, by stumbling at some stone in his path; but gets up, and goes on his way with more care and speed. This is rather to be understood of falls into affliction, than falls into actual sin.”

— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Proverbs 24:15–20 (Public Domain)

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