In a mob, or in great numbers, people get a sense of power… that they can do what they want and no one can stop them… “if hand join in hand.” There is a common thinking in men: if there are enough of us, we can get away with it! They can’t catch us all! They can’t arrest us all!
#Bible joining hands windows#
In a riot, we see people breaking store windows and walking away with the loot.Kids in a gang stir one another up to do evil-even murder… something they would probably never do on their own.The sheer number of people involved will serve as a shield. WHY? We believe that there is safety in numbers.People will do in a crowd what they would NEVER do alone….There IS such a thing as a mob mentality.1:10-15 – Solomon warns of the allurement of a gang. Wicked men DO join hands in their plans to carry out their wickedness. When it comes to wickedness, there is no safety in numbers. “Though hand joined in hand” the wicked shall NOT be unpunished.ĭ. There are times when there is NO safety in numbers!Ĭ. If both armies are equally well trained and equally well equipped and with equal leadership… one would expect that the army with 100,000 soldiers should easily defeat an army with only 2,000 soldiers.ī.All things being equal, one would expect the army with the most soldiers to win the battle!.11:21, Solomon singles out an exception to that principle or proverb, and demonstrates it to be a lie.Ī. This is a general principle… a proverb.ģ.4:11 – two are better at generating heat.4:10 – two are better if you fall down!.
It is true in one sense that two hands are better than one….4:9 – The Bible does say that two are better than one….There is a certain amount of truth in that.ĭ. The implication seems to be that when men hold hands and join together, they are strong and safe.This is an unusual Hebrew idiom… which is interpreted and translated in several different but similar ways.Here the proverb read, “hand in hand”… or hand joined in hand… We have often heard, “There is strength and safety in numbers.”ī. Here, Solomon puts down an ancient urban legend… a false proverb…Ī. Some we have heard so often, we accept as truth-when it may NOT be true.Ģ. However, not all of those un-inspired proverbs are accurate. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.Į.While none of them are inspired, some of them DO quite accurately describe a particular truth. There are ancient Turkish proverbs, Chinese proverbs, etc.Ĭ. Virtually every country has a book of proverbs of one sort or another.ī.
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