Proverbs 22:28

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Remove	תַּ֭סֵּג Ta.seg	H5253	to retreat · verb, hiphil jussive, 2nd person masculine singular
ancient	עוֹלָ֑ם o.Lam	H5769	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
landmark	גְּב֣וּל ge.Vul	H1366	properly · noun, common masculine singular construct
fathers	אֲבוֹתֶֽיךָ 'a.vo.Tei.kha	H1	father · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
set	עָשׂ֣וּ 'a.Su	H6213	to do or make · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 19:14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land t…
Deuteronomy 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Proverbs 23:10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Job 24:2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:28

1. We are here taught not to invade another man's right, though we can find ways of doing it ever so secretly and plausibly, clandestinely and by fraud, without any open force. Let not property in general be entrenched upon, by robbing men of their liberties and privileges, or of any just ways of maintaining them. Let not the property of particular persons be encroached upon. The land-marks, or meer-stones, are standing witnesses to every man's right; let not those be removed quite away, for thence come wars, and fightings, and endless disputes; let them not be removed so as to take from thy neighbour's lot to thy own, for that is downright robbing him and entailing the fraud upon posterity.…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 22:28

(Compare Pro 23:10). Do not entrench on others (Deu 19:14; Deu 27:17).

John Gill on Proverbs 22:28

Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set. Or, "the ancient border" or "boundary" (n); by which lands, estates, and inheritances, were marked, bounded, and distinguished; set by ancestors in agreement with their neighbours; which to remove was contrary to a law, and a curse is denounced upon those that did it, Deuteronomy 19:14; and was always reckoned a very heinous crime in early times; See Gill on Job 24:2. This was so sacred a thing among the Romans, that they had a deity which presided over those bounds, and had its name from them. Some apply this, in a political sense, to laws of long standing, and customs of long prescription; and others interpret it, in a theological…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 22:28

A fourth proverb - a distich - beginning with the warning אל: 28 Remove not the perpetual landmark Which thy ancestors have set up. 28a = Pro 23:10. Regarding the inviolability of boundaries established by the law, vid., at Pro 15:25. גּבוּל עולם denotes "the boundary mark set up from ancient times, the removal of which were a double transgression, because it is rendered sacred by its antiquity" (Orelli, p. 76). נסג = סוּג signifies to remove back, Hiph. to shove back, to move away. אשׁר has the meaning of (ὅριον) ὅ, τι, quippe quod. Instead of עולם, the Mishna reads, Pea v. 6, עולים, which in the Jerusalem Gemara one Rabbi understands of those brought up out of Egypt, another of the poo…

The Church Fathers

Do not remove the ancient landmarks, etc. Do not transgress the boundaries of faith established by the Catholic teachers from the beginning.
— Bede, Commentary on Proverbs

We reject all the doctrines introduced recently either through letters or through pamphlets as confusing the common people, since we are content with the ancient legislation of the fathers and obey the one who said, "Remove not the ancient landmarks which your fathers set up."
— Acacius of Beroea, LETTER TO CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA 2

He has revealed to us what it was expedient for us to know, whereas that which we were unable to bear he has withheld. With these things let us be content, and in them let us abide, and let us not step over the ancient bounds or pass beyond the divine tradition.
— John Damascene, ORTHODOX FAITH 1:1

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Field — (Heb. sadeh), a cultivated field, but unenclosed. It is applied to any cultivated ground or pasture (Gen. 29:2; 31:4; 34:7), or tillage (Gen. 37:7; 47:24). It is also applied to woodland (Ps. 132:6)…
Landmark — A boundary line indicated by a stone, stake, etc. (Deut. 19:14; 27:17; Prov. 22:28; 23:10; Job 24:2). Landmarks could not be removed without incurring the severe displeasure of God.
Agriculture Or Husbandry · Enactments to protect: Not to move landmarks — Enactments to protect: Not to move landmarks
Landmarks · Protected from fraudulent removal — Protected from fraudulent removal

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Proverbs 22:28

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:28

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 22:28

John Gill on Proverbs 22:28

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 22:28

The Church Fathers

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Proverbs 22:28

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:28

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 22:28

John Gill on Proverbs 22:28

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 22:28

The Church Fathers

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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Proverbs 22:28

Rashi on Proverbs 22:28