2Ch 10:8-10, 22:3-4, Pro 7:21-23, 20:19, 26:8, 28, 29:5, Dan 11:32 | TSK | STEP | he forsook. the young men.It was a custom in different countries to educate with the heir to the throne, young noblemen of nearly the same age. This, as Calmet observes, answered two great and important ends: 1. It excited the prince to emulation; that he might, as far as possible, surpass in all manly exercises, and in all acts of prudence and virtue, those whom one day he was to surpass in the elevation and dignity of his station. 2. That he might acquire a correct knowledge of the disposition and views of those who were likely to be, under him, the highest officers of the state, and consequently know the better how to trust and employ them.

2 Chronicles 10:8-10

he forsook.

25:15,16; 2Sa 17:14; Pr 1:25; 9:9; 19:20; 25:12; Ec 10:2,3,16

the young men.It was a custom in different countries to educate with the heir to the throne, young noblemen of nearly the same age. This, as Calmet observes, answered two great and important ends: 1. It excited the prince to emulation; that he might, as far as possible, surpass in all manly exercises, and in all acts of prudence and virtue, those whom one day he was to surpass in the elevation and dignity of his station. 2. That he might acquire a correct knowledge of the disposition and views of those who were likely to be, under him, the highest officers of the state, and consequently know the better how to trust and employ them.

What advice.

6; 2Sa 17:5,6; 1Ki 22:6-8

Ease.

Thus shalt.

2Sa 17:7-13; Pr 21:30; Isa 19:11-13

My little finger."My weakness," says the Targumist, "shall be stronger than the might of my father."

1Ki 12:10,11; Pr 10:14; 13:16; 14:16; 18:6,7; 28:25; 29:23

2 Chronicles 22:3-4

his mother.

Ge 6:4,5; De 7:3,4; 13:6-10; Jud 17:4,5; Ne 13:23-27; Mal 2:15

Mt 14:8-11

his counsellor.

Ge 27:12,13; Mt 10:37; Ac 4:19

they were his.

24:17,18; Pr 1:10; 12:5; 13:20; 19:27

Proverbs 7:21-23

With her.

5; 5:3; Jud 16:15-17; Ps 12:2

forced.

1Sa 28:23; 2Ki 4:8; Lu 14:23; 24:29; Ac 16:15; 2Co 5:14

straightway. Heb. suddenly. as an.

Ac 14:13

as a.Dr. Grey, making a slight alteration in the text, renders, "as a dog to the chain, and as a deer, till a dart strike through his liver;" and Dr. Hunt, "Or as a hart boundeth into the toils, till a dart strike through his liver." The LXX., Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, concur in this interpretation. The circumstance of the dart, as applied to the deer, is beautiful and proper, which otherwise we are at a loss to dispose of; and this creature, of all others, was the most proper to be noticed on this occasion; for the usual representation which the Egyptians made of a man overthrown by flattery and fair speeches was the picture of a heart captivated and ensnared by the sound of music.

the correction.

Job 13:27; Jer 20:2; Ac 16:24

a dart.

Nu 25:8,9

as a bird.

1:17; Ec 9:12

knoweth.

9:18

Proverbs 20:19

that goeth.

11:13; 18:8; 26:20-22; Le 19:16

meddle.

24:21

flattereth. or, enticeth.

16:29; Ro 16:18

Proverbs 26:8

bindeth a stone in a sling. Heb. putteth a precious stone ina heap of stones. This probably refers, as Coverdale understands it, to the custom of throwing a stone to the heap under which a criminal was buried. So the Vulgate, {Sicut qui mittit lapidem in acervum Mercurii; ita qui tribuit insipienti honorem,} "As he who throws a stone to Mercury's heap, so is he who gives honour to a fool." Mercury was a heathen god of highways; and stones were erected in different parts to guide the traveller: hence those lines of Dr. Young, "Death stands like Mercuries in every way; And kindly points us to our journey's end."

so.

1; 19:10; 30:22

Proverbs 26:28

lying.He that injures another hates him in proportion to the injury; {Proprium humani ingenii est, odisse quem læseris,} says Tacitlus: and strange to say, in proportion to the innocence of the injured.

Joh 8:40,44-49; 10:32,33; 15:22-24

a flattering.

6:24; 7:5,21-23; 29:5; Lu 20:20,21