THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE
A Verse-by-Verse Study of the Book of Proverbs
By Rev. George H. Stoddard · In His Hands Ministries International
Nine hundred and fifteen verses. Thirty-one chapters. One relentless argument: that reverence for God is not the reward at the end of a wise life, but the door you have to walk through to begin one.
The Beginning of Knowledge is a complete, verse-by-verse study of the book of Proverbs — every chapter, every verse, from Solomon's opening appeal to a son in chapter 1 to the acrostic praise of a worthy woman in chapter 31. Along the way it covers money and work, anger and friendship, the tongue and the heart, kings and neighbors, fools and sluggards, and the two women — Wisdom and Folly — who stand at the city gate calling every reader by name.
Each chapter opens with a short introduction to its themes, walks verse by verse through the full ASV text with clear, application-driven commentary, and closes with reflection questions built for personal study or group discussion. Whether read straight through in a month or slowly savored a page at a time, this guide is built for one purpose: to help ordinary readers actually live inside the book of Proverbs, not just admire it from a distance.
By Rev. George H. Stoddard — In His Hands Ministries International.
About the Author
Rev. George H. Stoddard is an ordained minister and the founder of In His Hands Ministries International. He is also a Southern Gospel and Christian country songwriter and producer, and a prolific author of Christian nonfiction and Bible study resources reaching readers across a growing library of verse-by-verse guides to Scripture. His work is built on a single conviction: that the Bible is meant to be read closely, book by book and verse by verse, by ordinary believers — not summarized for them.