Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 21:19; Proverbs 21:9; Proverbs 7:14; Psalms 37:16
Sacrifices - The feast accompanied the offerings Proverbs 7:14 . Part of the victims were burned upon the altar, the rest was consumed by the wo...
Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than an house full of (a) sacrifices [with] strife. (a) For where there were many sacrifices, there...
Proverbs 17. Fresh points are the rise of the able and clever slave to a place in the family ( Proverbs 17:2 ), the practice of bribes ( Proverbs 1...
Better. See note on Proverbs 8:11 . sacrifices . slain beasts. Hebrew. zebach. App-43.
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. Better is a dry morsel - Peace and contentment, an...
A dry morsel— Bread with pulse, or husks. Bochart and Houbigant. This was the food of meaner persons; whence Horace says, Epist. 1: lib. 2: lin...
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. Better is a dry morsel - without butter or oil...
1. Lit. 'the sacrifices of strife.' There would be no pleasure in the festal meal which followed a sacrifice ( Proverbs 7:14 ) if it was accompanie...
XVII. (1) A house full of sacrifices. — Possibly the same as the “peace offerings” of Proverbs 7:14 (where see note). The consumption of these...
CHAPTER 18 FRIENDSHIP "A friend loveth at all times, and as a brother is born for adversity."- Proverbs 17:17 This rendering, based upon the ma...
Verse Proverbs 17:3 . Two important thoughts are suggested by this proverb. First, that the heart will yield to no force other than that of God. Dro...
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth...
Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith ,.... A small quantity of bread; a broken piece of bread, as the word w signifies; which has been...
Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife. Ver. 1. Better is a dry morsel and quietness th...
Better is a dry morsel “Bread with pulse, or husks,” as Bochart and Houbigant interpret it; which was the food of meaner persons; and quietness th...
1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. These words recommend family-lo...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 17 Of sacrifices ; of the remainders of sacrifices, of which they used to make feasts; of which See Poole on " Proverbs 7:14 " ....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 17:1 . Sacrifices, literally killings , i.e. , slain beasts, not necessarily animals killed for sacrifice.
Proverbs 17:1 . Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith. See Proverbs 15:17 . Proverbs 17:3 . The fining pot is for silver, and the fu...
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. The maker and breaker of a family’s peace Truth...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 17:1 (Comp, Proverbs 15:16 , Proverbs 15:17 ; Proverbs 16:8 .) Better (sweeter) is a dry morsel, and quietness th...
v. 1. Better is a dry morsel, without even the customary wine or diluted vinegar, and quietness therewith, harmony among all those at the table,...
1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrificesa with strife.