Proverbs 9:2
and has slaughtered an animal and cooked the meat, and has mixed nice spices in the wine, and has put the food on the table.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
In Context
3It is as though then she sent out her servant women to call out from the highest place in the town,
Cross References
Proverbs 9:5“Come and eat the food that I have prepared, and drink the good wine that I have mixed!
Song of Solomon 8:2No one would object if I led you to my mother’s house, to where my mother, who taught me many things, lives. I would like to take you to my mother’s house because I would like to make love to you [EUP], and that would be as delightful as [MET] juice squeezed from pomegranates.
Matthew 22:3When the feast was ready, the king sent his servants to tell the people who had been {whom he had} invited that it was time for them to come to the wedding feast. The servants did that. But the people who had been invited did not want to come.
1 Corinthians 5:7So, just like we Jews expel the old yeast from our houses during the Passover celebration in order that we may have a fresh batch of dough without yeast in it [MET], you must expel such evil people from your congregation. Do that so that you can truly be holy people, as I know that you really are. Remember that Christ was sacrificed {sacrificed himself} so that God could spare us from being punished for our sins, just like the Jews sacrificed lambs during the first Passover celebration so that God would spare their firstborn sons from being killed.
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 →