Proverbs 22:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

Proverbs 22:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 8:6
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
2 Timothy 3:15-17
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. …
2 Peter 1:19-21
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: …
Hosea 8:12
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Psalms 12:6
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-21)

Solomon here changes his style and manner of speaking. Hitherto, for the most part, since the beginning of Prov. 10:1; he had laid down doctrinal truths, and but now and then dropped a word of exhortation, leaving us to make the application as we went along; but here, to the end of Prov. 22:17-24:34; he directs his speech to his son, his pupil, his reader, his hearer, speaking as to a particular p…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. excellent things--or probably of former times. counsels and knowledge--both advice and instruction.