Proverbs 9:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Her maidens; her servants, to invite the guests; ministers of the word, whom he calls maidens, partly for the decency of the parable; for wisdom being compared to a great princess, was fit to be attended upon by maidens; and partly to show that God by his word did work sweetly, though strongly, and did allure and draw rather than drive sinners to repentance. Upon the highest places: either upon the tops of the houses, which were flat; or rather, from such high seats as those from which judges delivered their sentences, and officers made proclamations, for the conveniency of the people's better hearing.

Proverbs 9:3

3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,