Proverbs 24:27 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 24:27

Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field; after that, you may build your house.

BSB

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ASV

Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.

KJV

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

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Commentary

2 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 118 (444)

The sacred Scripture has somewhere said, "Prepare your works for your departure, and make yourself ready for the field." Now by our departure I imagine is meant our going from this world and removal from it. And this time must of course overtake every one; for, as the psalmist says, "What man is there that shall live and not see death, and that can save his soul from the hand of hell?" For the nature of man was condemned in Adam and fell away unto corruption, because he foolishly transgressed the commandment given him.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

i. e., Get an estate into good order before erecting a house on it. To “build a house” may, however, be equivalent (compare Exo 1:21; Deu 25:9; Rth 4:11) to “founding a family;” and the words a warning against a hasty and imprudent marriage. The young man is taught to cultivate his land before he has to bear the burdens of a family. Further, in a spiritual sense, the “field” may be the man’s outer common work, the “house” the dwelling-place of his higher life. He must do the former faithfully in order to attain the latter.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הָ֘כֵ֤ן	ha.Khen	establish	H3559 →
בַּח֨וּץ׀	ba.Chutz	on the outside	H2351 →
מְלַאכְתֶּ֗ךָ	me.lakh.Te.kha	work your	H4399 →
וְעַתְּדָ֣הּ	ve.'a.te.Dah	and make ready it	H6257 →
בַּשָּׂדֶ֣ה	ba.sa.Deh	in the field	H7704 →
לָ֑ךְ	Lakh	for yourself
אַ֝חַ֗ר	'a.Char	after	H310 →
וּבָנִ֥יתָ	u.va.Ni.ta	and you will build	H1129 →
בֵיתֶֽךָ׃ פ	vei.Te.kha	house your	H1004 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Kings 6:7
The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 27:5–6
  Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.
- 1 Peter 2:5
  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.
- Exodus 20:25
  Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.
- 1 Kings 5:17–18
  And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
- Colossians 1:12
  giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Proverbs

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Proverbs