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Proverbs 18:10 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 18 · verse 10
The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.Proverbs 18:10 · King James Version
What Proverbs 18:10 means
The tower isn't built when trouble starts; it's already standing. Runneth is the only effort named here, and it's the effort of getting inside rather than holding the wall. The next verse puts a rich man's wealth in the same shape and calls it his strong city, which is the comparison Solomon wants you to make.
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Proverbs 18:10 in context
8The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
9He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
10The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
11The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
12Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
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Key words (Strong's)
- righteoustsaddîyqjustH6662 →
- runnethrûwtsto runH7323 →
- strongʻôzstrength in various applicationsH5797 →
- towermigdâla towerH4026 →
- nameshêman appellation, as amark or memorial of individualityH8034 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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Here is, 1. God's sufficiency for the saints: His name is a strong tower for them, in which they may take rest when they are weary and take sanctuary when they are pursued, where they may be lifted up above their enemies and fortified against them.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary