Proverbs 9:1
Wisdom has built her house. She has hewn out her seven pillars.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
In Context
2She has killed her beasts. She has mingled her wine. She has also furnished her table.
Cross References
1 Kings 7:6And he made the porch of pillars. The length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it thirty cubits, and a porch in front of them, and pillars and a threshold in front of them.
Proverbs 1:20Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the broad places.
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my law, but let thy heart keep my commandments.
Isaiah 55:1Ho, everyone who thirsts, come ye to the waters. And he who has no money, come ye, buy, and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are co-workmen of God. Ye are a tillage of God, an edifice of God.
Ephesians 2:20Which was built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 9:1
Christ and sin are rivals for the soul of man, and here we are told how they both make their court to it, to have the innermost and uppermost place in it. The design of this representation is to set before us life and death, good and evil; and there needs no more than a fair stating of the case to determine us which of those to choose, and surrender our hearts to. They are both brought in making entertainment for the soul, and inviting it to accept of the entertainment; concerning both we are told what the issue… Read the whole commentary →