Proverbs 9:1
Wisdom has built a house for herself. She has hewn seven columns.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
In Context
2She has immolated her victims. She has mixed her wine and set forth her table.
Cross References
1 Kings 7:6And he made a portico of columns, fifty cubits in length and thirty cubits in width, and another portico, facing the greater portico, with columns and with crossbeams upon the columns.
Proverbs 1:20Wisdom forewarns far and wide; she bestows her voice in the streets.
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart guard my precepts.
Isaiah 55:1All you who thirst, come to the waters. And you who have no money: hurry, buy and eat. Approach, buy wine and milk, without money and without barter.
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God’s assistants. You are God’s cultivation; you are God’s construction.
Ephesians 2:20having been built upon the foundation of the Apostles and of the Prophets, with Jesus Christ himself as the preeminent cornerstone.
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 →