Proverbs 7:14
12 Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.
13 She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:
“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.
15 So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.
16 I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.
- KJV
- I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
- WEB
- “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.
- ASV
- Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows.
- DARBY
- I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
- BLB
- “Sacrifices of peace offerings [are] by me; this day I have paid my vows;
- ÅB
- Takkoffer skulle jeg bære fram, og idag har jeg innfridd mine løfter;
- OTB
- «Jeg har oppfylt mine løfter i dag, og jeg har mat fra mine fredsoffer hjemme.
- B1930
- Takkoffer skulde jeg bære frem, og idag har jeg innfridd mine løfter;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable— how much more so when brought with ill intent!
Read in contextLeviticus 7:11
Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD:
Read in contextProverbs 17:1
Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.
Read in contextJohn 18:28
Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
Read in contextProverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 12:6–7
To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
Read in context2 Samuel 15:7–9
After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.
Read in context1 Kings 21:9–10
In the letters she wrote: “Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor among the people.
Read in context