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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Questions and Answers. The Question and Answer section for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. (4) Were allowed.-Rather, have been, and in 1Thessalonians 2:3 is, not 'was.' Paul is arguing from his habitual practice. 'But we speak after the manner of men who remember that God Himself has tried them, and has been satisfied to entrust the gospel to them, making it our business to please, not men, but God who thus tries our hearts' (1Corinthians 4:1-2). Hosea 4:1-2 NKJV Hear the word of the LORD, You children of Israel, For the LORD brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “There is no truth or mercy Or knowledge of God in the land. By swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed. A Father's Wise Instruction - Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching.
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The Lord Accuses Israel
4 kHear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,
for lthe Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
and mno knowledge of God in the land;
2 nthere is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
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they break all bounds, and obloodshed follows bloodshed.
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Listen,שִׁמְע֣וּ(šim·‘ū)
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Strong's Hebrew 8085: To hear intelligently
my sons,
בָ֭נִים(ḇā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son
to the instruction
מ֣וּסַר(mū·sar)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4148: Chastisement, reproof, warning, instruction, restraint
of a father;
אָ֑ב(’āḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father
pay attention
וְ֝הַקְשִׁ֗יבוּ(wə·haq·šî·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7181: To prick up the ears, hearken
and gain
לָדַ֥עַת(lā·ḏa·‘aṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know
understanding.
בִּינָֽה׃(bî·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 998: An understanding
IV.
(g) Seventh Discourse:--Recollections of his Father's Instructions (Proverbs 4:1 to Proverbs 5:6).
Capture one pro 11 3 0 26. (1) A father.--That is, of me, your teacher.
Verses 1-27. - 7. Seventh admonitory discourse.Hear 1 2 4 0
We here enter upon the second group of admonitory discourses, as is indicated by the opening address, 'my children,' and which occurs again in Proverbs 5:7 and Proverbs 7:24. This group extends to the end of ch. 7. Its prevailing tone is that of warning rather than of positive exhortations, which have been the rule hitherto. The general aim of the discourse before us, as of those preceding, is to exalt Wisdom, to exhibit her as a subject worthy of all earnest endeavour and sacrifice, but it is noticeable that the teacher introduces a fresh feature into his teaching or mode of instruction, in order to procure attention to, and acceptance of, his precepts on the part of his hearers. He has already spoken in his own name and with his own authority; he has brought forward Wisdom personified as making her appeal; he now adduces the authority of his own father's advice to himself. But as the mode of emphasizing his admonitions varies, so Wisdom is many-sided, and the aspect under which she is now presented seems to be especially that of discipline and obedience. The keynote of the discourse seems to be struck in the word 'instruction,' i.e. discipline, in the original, musar, thus recalling the admonition in Proverbs 1:8, 'My son, hear the instruction of thy father.' Bohlius, in his 'Ethica Sacra,' disp. 6. p. 65, sqq., assigns 'discipline' (musar) to this chapter; and Melancthon describes the admonitions of the chapter before us as 'adhortationes ad studium obedientiae.' Discipline rising into obedience seems to be the predominant thought to which all others are made subordinate. The discourse is an enlargement or amplification of this aspect of Wisdom. In structure the discourse consists mainly of the father's advice (vers. 4-19), preceded and followed by the teacher's own admonitions in vers. 1-3 and 20-27. The chief topics touched upon are(1) the supreme importance of Wisdom as being 'the principal thing' to be obtained before everything else (vers. 7-9);
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(2) the two ways that lie open to the choice of youth, distinguished respectively as the way of light and the way of darkness (vers. 14-19); and
(3) the guarding of the heart with all diligence, as being the seat of conscience and the fountain of life in its moral sense (vers. 23-27). The first part of the discourse is characterized by exhortations accompanied by promises; the latter part takes the form of warning, and warning of an alarming nature. The harmony which exists between the allusions in the discourse and the facts recorded in the historical books of Samuel and Chronicles serves to indicate that we have before us, in substance at least, the advice which David gave to Solomon, and that the discourse is Solomonic. Compare especially ver. 3 with 1 Chronicles 28:5 and 1 Chron 22:9, and ver. 18 with the last words of David in 2 Samuel 23:4. Verse 1. - Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father. This exhortation is identical with that in Proverbs 1:8, except that the address, 'ye children,' indicating a new departure, is now used instead of 'my son,' which has been hitherto employed (see Proverbs 1:8; Proverbs 2:1; Proverbs 3:1, 21), and 'of thy father' is altered to 'of a father.' The verb is the same, occurring here, of course, in the plural number. The appeal is evidently intended to rouse attention. Attention is especially necessary to secure a knowledge of Divine truth. Ye children (bhanim). This address occurs again twice in the second group of admonitory discourses - in Proverbs 5:7 and Proverbs 7:24, and also in the appeal of Wisdom personified in Proverbs 8:32, and, with these exceptions, nowhere else in the Proverbs. It is used by David, and it is possible that when the teacher penned these words he had in mind Psalm 34:11, 'Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.' The similarity in the address serves to connect the teacher of wisdom with David, and thus to identify him with Solomon, while it also leads to the conclusion that the advice which follows in vers. 4-19 is in substance that which David had given his son. On 'instruction,' see ch. 1:8. Of a father (av). It is difficult, owing to the want of the pronominal suffix, to determine accurately whether the teacher is referring to himself or to his own father in the expression. The following verse
(2) would indicate that he is speaking of himself in his capacity as a teacher or instructor of youth. But it is quite possible that he may be referring to his own father, whose advice he had received, and which he is now about to lay before others in vers. 4-19. Though attention to paternal advice in general, i.e. instruction given by any father to his children, is not intended here, still the passage may be regarded as embodying the principle that attention to parental advice is incumbent on children, and a disregard of it is the mark of ingratitude and depravity. Rabbi Levi understands the phrase as referring to our heavenly Father. Attend (hakshivu, hiph. imperative of kashav). On the force of this verb as signifying 'earnest, absorbed attention,' see Proverbs 1:24. To know understanding (ladaath bina); i.e. in order that you may know or gain understanding. 'The infinitive marks the design or object of the attention (cf. the Vulgate, ut sciatis). `The expression corresponds with ladaath khokmah in Proverbs 1:2, and just as this signifies 'to appropriate to yourself wisdom,' so the one before us has the same force, and signifies the gaining or appropriation of understanding, i.e. the faculty of discernment or discrimination. Hitzig renders, 'to know with the understanding;'
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