Proverbs 9:2
in Proverbs 9She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; She hath also furnished her table:
KJV
She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
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This verse in Proverbs 9
Commentary
10 notes on this verseShe hath killed her beasts,.... Or, "her sacrifice" (d): a crucified Christ, the principal of the provisions in Wisdom's house, or the church of Christ. The death of Christ was prefigured by the slaying of beasts for sacrifice under the old law; was foretold in prophecy, and is expressed by "killing" him in the New Testament; and which shows his death not to be natural, but violent.
This site's exposition
Wisdom has built her house
on Proverbs 9:1-6
Wisdom “has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars,” and seven is the book's figure of completeness. The words “Leave your folly behind, and you will live” name the cost before the gift, an exchange the guest must make to sit down.
This site's exposition
mixed her wine
Gill renders she has prepared her meat as she has killed her sacrifice, and he reads it as a figure of the death of Christ. The adulteress of 7:14 also set a table of peace offerings. Wisdom's table leads to life.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
And the phrase, "She hath killed her beasts," denotes the prophets and martyrs who in every city and country are slain like sheep every day by the unbelieving, in behalf of the truth, and cry aloud, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long, we were counted as sheep for the slaughter." And again, "She hath mingled her wine" in the bowl, by which is meant, that the Saviour, uniting his Godhead, like pure wine, with the flesh in the Virgin, was born of her at once God and man without confusion of the one in the other. "And she hath furnished her table: "that denotes the promised knowledge of the Holy Trinity; it also refers to His honoured and undefiled body and blood, which day by day are administered and offered sacrificially at the spiritual divine table, as a memorial of that first and ever-memorable table of the spiritual divine supper.
"Wisdom has prepared her table, she has slain her victims, she has mingled her wine in the bowl and cries with a loud voice, Turn in to me and eat the bread which I have prepared for you, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you."
The Medieval Church2 voices
She has slaughtered her beasts. She consecrated the Church with her sufferings, or she allowed the lives of the preachers to be martyred in persecution. And indeed, these beasts are opposed to the beasts of the harlot, to which she invites fools, as it was …
She has mixed her wine, etc. For those unable to grasp the mysteries of her divinity, she revealed the sacraments of the assumed humanity and prepared for us the nourishment of the sacred Scriptures by revealing them.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
): She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; plenty of meat and drink are provided, and all of the best. She has killed her sacrifice (so the word is); it is a sumptuous, but a sacred feast, a feast upon a sacrifice. Christ has offered up himself a sacrifice for us, and it is his flesh that is meat indeed and his blood that is drink indeed.
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2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
She hath killed her beasts - God has made the most ample provision for the innumerable tribes of animal and intellectual beings, which people the whole vortex of created nature.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Mingled her wine - i. e., with myrrh and other spices, to give flavor and strength.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
She has prepared her meat, she has mingled her wine She has mixed it with water, like strong wine, that is unfit to drink unmixed.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
Wisdom has built her house With wisdom has the Holy One, blessed be He, built the world.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 2 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| טָבְחָ֣ה | tavechah | she has slaughtered | H2873 → | |
| טִ֭בְחָהּ | tivchah | slaughtering her | H2874 → | |
| מָסְכָ֣ה | masekhah | she has mixed | H4537 → | |
| יֵינָ֑הּ | yeinah | wine her | H3196 → | 141 times |
| אַ֝֗ף | ʾaf | also | H637 → | 134 times |
| עָֽרְכָ֥ה | ʾarekhah | she has arranged | H6186 → | |
| שֻׁלְחָנָֽהּ׃ | shulchanah | table her | H7979 → |
טָבְחָ֣הshe has slaughtered
tavechahH2873 →
טִ֭בְחָהּslaughtering her
tivchahH2874 →
מָסְכָ֣הshe has mixed
masekhahH4537 →
יֵינָ֑הּwine her
yeinahH3196 →141 times
אַ֝֗ףalso
ʾafH637 →134 times
עָֽרְכָ֥הshe has arranged
ʾarekhahH6186 →
שֻׁלְחָנָֽהּ׃table her
shulchanahH7979 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 25:6On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
it leads to
- Matthew 8:11
I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
- Jeremiah 31:12–13
They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and…
- Psalms 63:5
My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
- Zechariah 9:16–17
On that day the LORD their God will save them as the flock of His people; for like jewels in a crown they will sparkle over His land.
- Luke 22:30
so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Matthew 8:11
Through
Proverbs 23:30Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.
it leads to
- Ephesians 5:18
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
- Isaiah 5:11
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
- Ephesians 5:18
Through
Proverbs 9:5“Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.
it leads to
- John 6:27
Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of…
- John 6:27
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon; Hippolytus of Rome, Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Origen of Alexandria, ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2:11.