Proverbs 7:14
“I vowed sacrifices for well-being. Today I have repaid my vows.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
In Context
13And overtaking the youth, she kisses him, and with a provocative face, she flatters him, saying:
15Because of this, I have gone out to meet you, desiring to see you, and I have found you.
Cross References
Leviticus 7:11This is the law of the victim of peace offerings, which is offered to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 12:6And you shall offer, in that place, your holocausts and victims, the tithes and first-fruits of your hands, and your vows and gifts, the firstborn of the cattle and of the sheep.
1 Kings 21:9And this was the judgment of the letters: “Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit among the first rulers of the people.
Proverbs 17:1A dry morsel with gladness is better than a house full of sacrifices along with conflict.
Isaiah 1:13You should no longer offer sacrifice in vain. Incense is an abomination to me. The new moons and the Sabbaths and the other feast days, I will not receive. Your gatherings are iniquitous.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:7-24
The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now… Read the whole commentary →