Proverbs 9:1
Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
In Context
2She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table.
Cross References
1 Kings 7:6He made the hall of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits, with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them.
Proverbs 1:20Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.
Proverbs 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
Isaiah 55:1“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
1 Corinthians 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
Ephesians 2:20being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief 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 →