Proverbs 7:14

“I have some meat that is left over from a sacrifice that I made today to maintain fellowship with Yahweh; I have fulfilled/done what I promised him that I would do.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

In Context

13When she saw that young man, she put her arms around him and kissed him. Then without being a bit ashamed, she said,

15And now I have come out to meet/see you. I was searching for you, and now I have found you!

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Cross References

Leviticus 7:11These are the regulations concerning the offerings that people make to maintain fellowship with Yahweh:

Deuteronomy 12:6That is the place where you must bring your sacrifices that will be completely burned on the altar, and your other sacrifices, ◄your tithes/ten percent of all of your crops►, other offerings that you decide to give, and the firstborn animals from your cattle and sheep.

1 Kings 21:9This is what she wrote in the letters: “Proclaim a day when all the people will gather together and ◄fast/abstain from eating food►. Give to Naboth an important place to sit among them.

Proverbs 17:1It is better to eat a dry piece of bread and not have strife/quarrels than to have a big feast in a house where everyone is quarreling.

Isaiah 1:13Stop bringing to me those offerings, because they are useless to me; I am disgusted with the incense that the priests burn. And your feasts to celebrate the new moon each month and your ◄Sabbath days/days of rest► and your other festivals— I detest them because of the wicked things that you do.

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 →

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