Proverbs 14

Proverbs 14:1

Forgiveness - Thou art able and ready to forgive repenting sinners. Feared - Not with a slavish, but with a childlike fear. This mercy of thine is the foundation of all religion, without which men would desperately proceed in their impious courses.

Proverbs 14:2

I wait - That he would pardon my sins.

Proverbs 14:3

They - Whether soldiers that keep the night - watches in an army, or the priests or Levites who did so in the temple.

Proverbs 14:4

Israel - Every true Israelite. Plenteous - Abundantly sufficient for all persons who accept it upon God’s terms.

Proverbs 14:8

Surely - When my mind was provoked. Weaned - Wholly depending upon God’s providence, as the poor helpless infant, relies upon its mother for support.

Proverbs 14:11

Afflictions - All his sufferings for thy sake.

Proverbs 14:15

Until - Until I have raised an house in which the ark may be put.

Proverbs 14:16

It - Of the ark. Ephratah - In the tribe of Ephraim, which was called also Ephratah. Found it - Afterwards we found it in Kirjath - jearim, which signifies a city of woods, in the territory whereof the ark was seated for twenty years.

Proverbs 14:17

Tabernacles - Into his temple. Footstool - The ark, is often said to sit between the cherubim, which were above the ark.

Proverbs 14:18

Rest - Into thy resting place, the temple so called, Isaiah 66:1, where thou hast now a fixed habitation. The ark - The seat of thy powerful and glorious presence.

Proverbs 14:20

David’s sake - In regard of thy promises vouchsafed to David. Turn not - Cast me not out of thy presence. Of - Of me whom thou hast anointed to be king over thy people.

Proverbs 14:26

Salvation - With thy saving graces and blessings.

Proverbs 14:27

There - In Jerusalem. To bud - His power and glory to flourish. A lamp - A successor to continue for ever in his family, as this phrase is expounded 1 Kings 11:36 15:4, and particularly one eminent and glorious light, namely, the Messiah.

Proverbs 14:31

Ointment - It is no less grateful and refreshing than that oil which was poured forth upon Aaron’s head at the time of his consecration to the priestly office. Skirts - Not to the lower skirt or bottom of his sacerdotal garment, but to the upper skirt of it, or the mouth of it, as the Hebrew word properly signifies.

Proverbs 14:32

Zion - It is as desirable as the dew which falls upon mount Hermon, nay, as desirable as that heavenly dew of God’s ordinances and graces which he hath commanded to fall upon the mountains of Zion and Moriah, and others which are round about Jerusalem. There - Where brethren live in peace and unity.

Proverbs 14:34

Servant - Peculiarly so called, priests and Levites. Night - Not only by day, but also by night, when their watch was more necessary. Stand - Serve or minister.