Proverbs 17:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Sacrifices - The feast accompanied the offerings Proverbs 7:14. Part of the victims were burned upon the altar, the rest was consumed by the worshipper and his friends. The “house full of sacrifices” was therefore one abounding in sumptuous feasts.

Proverbs 17:1

1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrificesa with strife.