Proverbs 9:1
Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
2 She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
3 She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
- KJV
- Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
- WEB
- Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.
- ASV
- Wisdom hath builded her house; She hath hewn out her seven pillars:
- DARBY
- Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars;
- BLB
- Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out her seven pillars.
- ÅB
- Visdommen har bygget sitt hus, hun har hugget til sine syv stolper.
- OTB
- Visdom har bygget sitt hus; hun har hugget ut sine syv søyler.
- B1930
- Visdommen har bygget sitt hus, hun har hugget til sine syv stolper.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 16:18
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
Read in contextRevelation 3:12
The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.
Read in contextGalatians 2:9
And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.
Read in context1 Peter 2:5–6
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Read in contextEphesians 2:20–22
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
Read in context1 Corinthians 3:9–15
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
Read in context1 Kings 7:2–3
He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.
Read in context1 Kings 7:21
Thus he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jachin, and the pillar to the north he named Boaz.
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