Proverbs 21:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? ”

• Proverbs 21:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  A lower depth even than Proverbs 15:8 . The wicked man may connect his devotion with his guilt, offer his sacrifice and vow his vow (as men have done under paganism or corrupted Christianity) for...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 21:1 . watercourses: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which could be diverted in any direction at will. Prove...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  mind . purpose.

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? When he bringeth it with a wicked mind? - If such a person even bring the sacrifices and offerin...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination (under an circumstances; Proverbs 15:8 ); how m...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon ( Isaiah 58:11 ).

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  How much more when he bringeth it with a wicked mind ? — Plotting at the same time future wickedness, or thinking to make God, by the sacrifice, overlook his sin, and so become, as it were, his conf...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 22 WINE "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."- Proverbs 21:17 THE Septuagint translation has an interesting addition to the prov...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Verse Proverbs 21:4 . The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud heart, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man t...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath. The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The sacrifice of the wicked [is] abomination ,.... That is, to the Lord, as in Proverbs 15:8 ; and as it is here added in the Septuagint and Arabic versions; how much more, [when] he bringeth it...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The sacrifice of the wicked [is] abomination: how much more, [when] he bringeth it with a wicked mind? Ver. 27. The sacrifice of the wicked, &c. ] See Trapp on " Pro 15:8 " How much more...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The sacrifice of the wicked All the most glorious and costly services which they offer to God; is abomination God rejects and abhors them, because they are offered by such men, and in such a mann...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?       Sacrifices were of divine institution; and when they were offered in faith,...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The sacrifice; all the most glorious and costly services which they offer to God. Is abomination; God rejects and abhors them, because they are offered by such men and in such manner as God justl...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 21:27 . With a wicked mind , literally “ for iniquity , and may refer to a desire to cloak a sinful purpose by an outward show of piety, or an attempt to expiate a sinful...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 21:1 . The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will. The allusion is probably to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn fi...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water. We are to think of the little channels used for irrigation. As these are altogether under the...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 27. The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination, no amount of mechanical, outward acting will take the place of worship in spirit and in truth; how much more when he bringeth it with a wicked mi...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 13:12 ; 1 Samuel 13:13 ; 1 Samuel 15:21-23 ; Amos 5:21 ; Amos 5:22 ; Isaiah 1:11-16 ; Isaiah 66:3 ; Jeremiah 6:20 ; Jeremiah 7:11 ; Jeremiah 7:12 ; Matthew 23:14 ; Proverbs 15:8...

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• Proverbs 21:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The sacrifice — All the most costly services which they offer to God. Because — As all the ancient translators render it, the Hebrew particle, aph, being expletive: or, even because; so the followi...

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