Proverbs 8:25 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 8:25

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

KJV

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ASV

Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;

WEB

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,

YLT

Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.

DBT

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;

About this book

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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7 verses on the floor

Psalms 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Job 38:4–11
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Psalms 102:25–28
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Job 15:7–8
Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
Hebrews 1:10
And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Strictly, God's attributes are part of Himself. Yet, to the poetical structure of the whole passage, this commendation of wisdom is entirely consonant. In order of time all His attributes are coincident and eternal as Himself.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Eliphaz, to convince Job of his inability to judge of the divine counsels, asks him ( Job xv. 7 ), Wast thou made before the hills? But before the hills was the eternal Word brought forth.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H296256× in canon H234258× in canon

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PRO 8:25HEB 1:10 GEN 1:1
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 8:25HEB 1:10 PSA 102:25-27
PRO 8:25HEB 1:10 JHN 1:1-3
PRO 8:25PSA 90:2 HEB 13:8
PRO 8:25HEB 1:10 JER 32:17
PRO 8:25HEB 1:10 ISA 48:13
PRO 8:25PSA 90:2 PSA 102:24-27
PRO 8:25PSA 90:2 REV 1:8

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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