Proverbs 8:34

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Summary

Proverbs 8:34

Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

Watching

General references

2 Chronicles 9:7

Luke 7:35

Bible References

Watching

On a {busy corner} she cries out, at the entrances of the gates in the city, she speaks her sayings:

For if you cry out for understanding, [if] you lift your voice for insight,

One [thing] I have asked from Yahweh; it I will seek: [that] I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to consider his temple.

Because better [is] a day in your courtyards than a thousand [elsewhere]. I would rather be at the threshold of the house of my God than to dwell in [the] tents of wickedness.

Planted in the house of Yahweh, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

And they were both righteous in the sight of God, living blamelessly in all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.

And {she had} a sister named Mary, who also sat at the feet of Jesus [and] was listening to his teaching.

But he said, "On the contrary, blessed [are] those who hear the word of God and follow [it]!"

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,

And they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers.

Now these were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica. {They} accepted the message with all eagerness, examining the scriptures every day [to see] if these [things] were so.

But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

General references

Blessed [are] your men, and blessed [are] these your servants who stand before you regularly and hear your wisdom!

And wisdom is vindicated by all her children."