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God’s Wisdom in Proverbs: Hearing God’s Voice in Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Proverbs has been understood and misunderstood in countless different ways. In God’s Wisdom in Proverbs, Dan Phillips explores this “kaleidoscopic microcosm of the wisdom of God.” Phillips takes special care to convey the distinctive style and rhetorical effect of the original Hebrew. God’s Wisdom in Proverbs provides an excellent introduction and selective exposition of this much...

started about 970 BC.12 Solomon’s life was changed shortly thereafter. We read of Solomon’s opportunity and dilemma in 1 Kings 3:3–8. As Solomon worshiped Yahweh earnestly in Gibeon one day, he received a vision of God in a dream in the night (v. 5). In this dream, God gave Solomon a choice that most of us … well, we could only dream of it. However, Solomon’s “dream” was a reality. God said, “Ask what I shall give you” (v. 5). Breath-taking. A blank check, from God. Solomon was clearly overwhelmed
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