箴言 25:22

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

因為你這樣作，就是把炭火堆在他的頭上，耶和華必還報你。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 ， 你 这 样 行 就 是 把 炭 火 堆 在 他 的 头 上 ； 耶 和 华 也 必 赏 赐 你 。

Contextual Overview

²¹ If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink. ²² Doing this will be like pouring burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For: Not to consume, but to melt him into kindness; a metaphor taken from smelting metalic ores.

the Lord: 2 Samuel 16:12, Matthew 10:13, 1 Corinthians 15:18

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 24:19 - the Lord 2 Kings 6:22 - set bread 2 Kings 6:23 - he prepared 2 Chronicles 28:15 - gave them Proverbs 24:29 - Say Song of Solomon 8:6 - the coals Matthew 5:44 - General Luke 6:27 - Love Luke 10:34 - went Romans 12:20 - if thine

Cross-References

1 Samuel 9:9
(In the past, if someone in Israel wanted to ask something from God, he would say, "Let's go to the seer." We call the person a prophet today, but in the past he was called a seer.)

1 Samuel 10:22
They asked the Lord , "Has Saul come here yet?" The Lord said, "Yes. He's hiding behind the baggage."

1 Samuel 22:15
That was not the first time I prayed to God for David. Don't blame me or any of my relatives. I, your servant, know nothing about what is going on."

1 Samuel 28:6
He prayed to the Lord , but the Lord did not answer him through dreams, Urim, or prophets.

1 Samuel 30:8
Then David asked the Lord , "Should I chase the people who took our families? Will I catch them?" The Lord answered, "Chase them. You will catch them, and you will succeed in saving your families."

Ezekiel 20:31
When you offer your children as gifts and sacrifice them in the fire, you are making yourselves unclean with all your idols even today. So, people of Israel, should I let you ask me questions? As surely as I live, says the Lord God , I will not accept questions from you.

Ezekiel 36:37
"This is what the Lord God says: I will let myself be asked by the people of Israel to do this for them again: I will make their people grow in number like a flock.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou shall heap coals of fire upon his head,.... Not to increase his punishment and damnation, the more aggravated by kindness shown him; but to bring him by such means to a sense of former injuries, and to shame for them, repentance of them, and love of the person injured, and carefulness for the future of doing him any further wrong;

and the Lord shall reward thee: with good things, for all the good done to thine enemy, whether it has the desired effect on him or not; or whether he rewards thee or not; see Romans 12:20.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A precept reproduced by Paul Romans 12:20; the second clause of which seems at first sight to suggest a motive incompatible with a true charity. Leviticus 16:12 suggests an explanation. The high priest on the Day of Atonement was to take his censer, to fill it with “coals of fire,” and then to put the incense thereon for a sweet-smelling savor. So it is here. The first emotion in another caused by the good done to him may be one of burning shame, but the shame will do its work and the heart also will burn, and prayer and confession and thanksgiving will rise as incense to the throne of God. Thus, “we shall overcome evil with good.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 25:22. Thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head — Not to consume, but to melt him into kindness; a metaphor taken from smelting metallic ores: -

So artists melt the sullen ore of lead,

By heaping coals of fire upon its head:

In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow,

And pure from dross the silver runs below.

S. WESLEY.