Proverbs 7:14
I owed sacrifices for health (or I have paid my offerings for my deliverance); today I have yielded my vows.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
In Context
15Therefore I went out into thy meeting, and I desired to see thee; and I have found thee.
Cross References
Leviticus 7:11This is the law of the sacrifice of peaceable things, which is offered to the Lord. (And this is the law for the peace offerings which be offered to the Lord.)
Deuteronomy 12:6and ye shall come thither, and offer in that place your burnt sacrifices, and slain sacrifices, the tithes, and first fruits of your hands, and avows, and gifts, and the first engendered things of your oxen, and of (your) sheep. (and ye shall come there, and offer in that place your burnt sacrifices, and slain sacrifices, your tithes, and the first fruits of your hands, and your vows, and gifts, and the first-born males of your oxen, and of your sheep.)
1 Kings 21:9And this was the sentence of the letter (s); Preach ye fasting, and make ye Naboth to sit among the first men of the people;
Proverbs 17:1Better is a dry morsel with joy, than an house full of sacrifices with chiding, ( or with arguments).
Isaiah 1:13Offer ye no more sacrifice (s) in vain; incense is abomination to me; I shall not suffer new moon, and sabbath, and other feasts. For your companies be wicked; (To offer your sacrifices any longer would be in vain, that is, empty and futile; your incense is an abomination to me; I will no longer abide new moon, or Sabbath, or other festivals. For your congregation is wicked;)
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 →