Quotes About Wisdom

When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.

It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.

Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel.

Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.

You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”

Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.

When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.

When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?

when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.

his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,

and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled—both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.

Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.

And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

ëCursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

So keep and follow the words of this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ëI will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.í This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.