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Proverbs 7:14

"I offered a fellowship offering today. I gave what I promised to give,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Blindness;   Harlot (Prostitute);   Hypocrisy;   Ignorance;   Lasciviousness;   Temptation;   Women;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Whoredom;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fornication;   Men;   Vow;   Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fool, Foolishness, Folly;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Evil Speaking;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Delilah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Proverbs, Book of;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Song of Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   Sacrifice and Offering;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Veil;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Salvation;   Wisdom;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chastity;   Judaism;   Peace-Offering;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“I’ve made fellowship offerings;today I’ve fulfilled my vows.
Hebrew Names Version
"Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.
King James Version
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
English Standard Version
"I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;
New Century Version
"I made my fellowship offering and took some of the meat home. Today I have kept my special promises.
New English Translation
"I have fresh meat at home; today I have fulfilled my vows!
Amplified Bible
"I have peace offerings with me; Today I have paid my vows.
New American Standard Bible
"I was due to offer peace offerings; Today I have paid my vows.
World English Bible
"Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.
Legacy Standard Bible
"The sacrifices of peace offerings are with me;Today I paid my vows.
Berean Standard Bible
"I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.
Contemporary English Version
"I had to offer a sacrifice, and there is enough meat left over for a feast.
Complete Jewish Bible
"I had to offer peace sacrifices, and I fulfilled my vows today.
Darby Translation
I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
George Lamsa Translation
This day I have paid my vows, I have peace offerings with me;
Good News Translation
"I made my offerings today and have the meat from the sacrifices.
Lexham English Bible
"Sacrifices of peace offerings are upon me; today I completed my vows.
Literal Translation
Sacrifices of peace offerings are on me, today I have completed my vows;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I had a vowe to paye, & this daye I perfourme it.
American Standard Version
Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows.
Bible in Basic English
I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Sacrifices of peace-offerings were due from me; this day have I paid my vows.
King James Version (1611)
I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I had a vowe of peace offeringes to pay, and this day I perfourme it:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I have a peace-offering; today I pay my vows:
English Revised Version
Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me; this day have I paid my vows.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
to dai Y haue yolde my vowis.
Update Bible Version
Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day I have paid my vows.
Webster's Bible Translation
[I have] peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.
New King James Version
"I have peace offerings with me; Today I have paid my vows.
New Living Translation
"I've just made my peace offerings and fulfilled my vows.
New Life Bible
"It was time for me to give gifts on the altar in worship, and today I have paid what I promised.
New Revised Standard
"I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Peace-offerings, are by me, to-day, have I paid my vows;
Douay-Rheims Bible
I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows.
Revised Standard Version
"I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;
Young's Literal Translation
`Sacrifices of peace-offerings [are] by me, To-day I have completed my vows.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I was due to offer peace offerings; Today I have paid my vows.

Contextual Overview

6 One day I was looking out my window 7 at some foolish teenagers and noticed one who had no sense at all. 8 He was walking through the marketplace and came to the corner where a certain woman lived. He then turned up the road that goes by her house. 9 The day was ending. The sun had set, and it was almost dark. 10 Suddenly, there she was in front of him, dressed like a prostitute. She had plans for him. 11 She was a wild and rebellious woman who would not stay at home. 12 She walked the streets, always looking for someone to trap. 13 She grabbed the young man and kissed him. Without shame, she looked him in the eye and said, 14 "I offered a fellowship offering today. I gave what I promised to give, 15 and I still have plenty of food left. So I came out to find you, and here you are!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have peace offerings with me: Heb. Peace-offerings are upon me, Proverbs 15:8, Proverbs 17:1, Proverbs 21:27, Leviticus 7:15, Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 12:7

this: 2 Samuel 15:7-9, 1 Kings 21:9, 1 Kings 21:10, John 18:28

Reciprocal: Leviticus 3:1 - a sacrifice Leviticus 22:21 - to accomplish Numbers 7:23 - General Jeremiah 7:10 - come James 5:5 - as in

Cross-References

Genesis 7:2
Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of every kind of clean animal. And get one pair (one male and one female) of every other animal on the earth. Lead all these animals into the boat with you.
Genesis 7:3
Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of all the birds. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the other animals are destroyed.
Genesis 7:8
All the clean animals, all the other animals on the earth, the birds, and everything that crawls on the earth
Genesis 7:9
went into the boat with Noah. These animals went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God commanded.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[I have] peace offerings with me,.... Meaning at her house. These peace offerings were of the eucharistic kind; they were offered by way of thanksgiving for favours received; the greatest part of which, all excepting the fat on the kidneys, the rump of the sheep, the breast and right shoulder, which were the priest's, were returned to the offerers to feast upon with their friends, and were to be eaten the same day, Leviticus 7:11. This she said to show that she was no common strumpet, or that prostituted herself for gain; that she was a sufficient housewife, had a considerable affluence of life, her substance greatly increased, for which she had made her thank offering that day; that she wanted nothing of him but his company, and the enjoyment of him; and that she had good cheer to regale him with. She was properly קדשה, "a holy" religious harlot, as the word sometimes signifies; and such is the church of Rome, which makes great pretensions to devotion and religion, yet is the mother of harlots, and abominations of the earth, Revelation 17:5;

this day have I paid my vows; not on account of the young man, and for his health, and for meeting with him; for those vows were not now made to be paid, but were made and paid already: but her vows of peace offerings and thanksgivings, which, as she had promised, she had performed. Under this point may be reckoned the vows of virginity and celibacy, through a show of which the most shocking iniquities are committed by the members of the church of Rome.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This pretence of a religious feast gives us an insight into some strange features of popular religion under the monarchy of Judah. The harlot uses the technical word Leviticus 3:1 for the “peace-offerings,” and makes them the starting-point for her sin. They have to be eaten on the same day that they are offered Leviticus 7:15-16, and she invites her victim to the feast. She who speaks is a “foreigner” who, under a show of conformity to the religion of Israel, still retains her old notions (see Proverbs 2:16 note), and a feast-day to her is nothing but a time of self-indulgence, which she may invite another to share with her. If we assume, as probable, that these harlots of Jerusalem were mainly of Phoenician origin, the connection of their worship with their sin would be but the continuation of their original “cultus.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:14. I have peace-offerings with me — More literally, "the sacrifices of the peace-offerings are with me." Peace-offerings, shelamim, were offerings the spiritual design of which was to make peace between God and man, to make up the breach between them which sin had occasioned; Leviticus 7:38, where every kind of sacrifice offered under the law is explained. When the blood of these was poured out at the altar, and the fat burnt there, the breast and right shoulder were the priest's portion; but the rest of the carcass belonged to the sacrificer, who might carry it home, and make a feast to his friends. See Leviticus 3:1-11. Much light is cast on this place by the fact that the gods in many parts of the East are actually worshipped in brothels, and fragments of the offerings are divided among the wretches who fall into the snare of the prostitutes.-WARD'S Customs.

Have I payed my vows — She seems to insinuate that she had made a vow for the health and safety of this young man; and having done so, and prepared the sacrificial banquet, came actually out to seek him, that he might partake of it with her, Proverbs 7:15. But, as she intended to proceed farther than mere friendship, she was obliged to avail herself of the night season, and the absence of her husband.


 
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