Proverbs 25 Summary - 5 Minute Bible Study

Proverbs 25 Short Summary:

Proverbs 25 continues the short proverbs of Solomon that began in chapter 10. Solomon’s proverbs are recorded in Proverbs chapter 10 through chapter 29. These proverbs are typically short and concise statements of wisdom for the medication of the reader.

Proverbs 25 Summary

BREAKDOWN OF PROVERBS - CHART

DEFINITIONS:

• Hezekiah (25:1) – Hezekiah was one of the kings of the nation of Judah. He reigned around 700 B.C.

• Dross (25:4) – When you melt metal, the impurities float to the top. The impurities are called the dross.

• Ill Repute (25:10) – A bad reputation.

HIGHLIGHTED PROVERBS:

• PROVERB #1:

  • Proverbs 25:2 – “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.”

  • God is glorified through His creation, much of which is still concealed from us even after thousands of years of scientific study.

  • What He built in 6 days (Genesis 1), takes men millennia to unravel.

  • Even in the modern day, we’ve only begun to explore our universe.

  • Think of us, here on our little planet, practically trapped here because we haven’t unraveled the mysteries of physics and outer space. There are galaxies to explore that are light years away, and we can’t even make it to our neighboring planet.

  • The universe is like a 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle made by God. He created it and knows every piece perfectly. We are like toddlers on floor celebrating when we find two matching pieces.

  • As humans, we can glory in our discoveries, we can be proud that we’ve matched 50 pieces of the puzzle, but let’s not forget there are still 9,950 pieces to go, and that the real glory belongs to the Creator of the masterpiece.

• PROVERB #2:

  • Proverbs 25:6-7a – “Do not put yourself forward in the king’s presence or stand in the place of the great, for it is better to be told, “Come up here,” than to be put lower in the presence of a noble.”

  • Don’t take a position of honor for yourself when you enter a place, take a humble place instead.

  • Don’t think too highly of yourself. It would be shameful if you were asked to move for a more important person.

  • On the other hand, if you take a humble place and then are asked to move up to a more honorable place, that would be an honor.

  • Jesus said something similar to this in Luke 14.

  • Luke 14:8-11 – “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

• PROVERB #3:

  • Proverbs 25: 14 – “Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.”

  • A farmer watches for rain and is encouraged when clouds roll in, but he is disappointed when the clouds carry no water and the wind blows them away.

  • Don’t be a person who promises to give a gift and then fails to deliver.

  • Don’t promise someone you’ll contribute and then neglect to do it.

  • Don’t promise your presence to someone and then fail to show up. 

  • Don’t offer to help someone and then back out.

  • If you do that too many times, people will start to resent you, just as the farmer resents the clouds that provide no rain.