Proverbs 9:2
She has killed her beasts. She has mingled her wine. She has also furnished her table.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
In Context
1Wisdom has built her house. She has hewn out her seven pillars.
3She has sent forth her maidens. She cries out upon the highest places of the city:
Cross References
Proverbs 9:5Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
Song of Solomon 8:2I would lead thee, [and] bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me. I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
Matthew 22:3And he sent forth his bondmen to call those who were invited to the wedding festivities, and they did not want to come.
1 Corinthians 5:7Purge out the old leaven, so that ye may be a new lump, since ye are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 9:2-13
The Invitation of Wisdom. 1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. 3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. 7 He that… Read the whole commentary →