Proverbs 23:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

Proverbs 23:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jude 1:12
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Genesis 43:32-34
And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. …

Topics

Abstemiousness Abstinence, Total Appetite Caution Citizens Consistency Counsel Courtesy

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-3)

The sin we are here warned against is luxury and sensuality, and the indulgence of the appetite in eating and drinking, a sin that most easily besets us. 1. We are here told when we enter into temptation, and are in most danger of falling into this sin: “ When thou sittest to eat with a ruler thou has great plenty before thee, varieties and dainties, such a table spread as thou has seldom seen; th…

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

(vv. 1)

Pr 23:1-35. 1. Avoid the dangers of gluttony.