the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Proverbs 21:22
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A wise person went up against a city of warriorsand brought down its secure fortress.
A wise man scales the city of the mighty, And brings down the strength of its confidence.
A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
A wise person scales the city of the mighty And brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
A wise person can defeat a city full of warriors and tear down the defenses they trust in.
A wise man scales the city [walls] of the mighty And brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
A wise man scales the city of the mighty, And brings down the strength of its confidence.
A wise man goes up to the city of the mightyAnd brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
A wise man scales the city of the mighty and pulls down the stronghold in which they trust.
One wise person can defeat a city full of soldiers and capture their fortress.
A wise man can go up into a city of warriors and undermine the strength in which it trusts.
A wise [man] scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
A wise person can defeat a city full of warriors and tear down the defenses they trust in.
A wise man scales the defenses of the city of mighty men and conquers the stronghold in which they trusted.
A shrewd general can take a city defended by strong men, and destroy the walls they relied on.
To a city of warriors, the wise ascends, and he will bring down the stronghold—its object of trust.
A wise one ascends the city of the mighty and topples the strength in which it trusts.
A wyse man wynneth the cite of the mightie, and as for the strength yt they trust in, he bryngeth it downe.
A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, And bringeth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.
A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and bringeth down the stronghold wherein it trusteth.
A wise man scaleth the citie of the mightie, and casteth downe the strength of the confidence thereof.
A wyse man skaleth the citie of the mightie, & ouerthroweth the strength wherein they trusted.
A wise man assaults strong cities, and demolishes the fortress in which the ungodly trusted.
A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and bringeth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
A wijs man stiede `in to the citee of stronge men, and distriede the strengthe of trist therof.
A wise man scales the city of the mighty, And brings down the strength of the confidence thereof.
A wise [man] scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of its confidence.
The wise person can scale the city of the mighty and bring down the stronghold in which they trust.
A wise man scales the city of the mighty, And brings down the trusted stronghold.
The wise conquer the city of the strong and level the fortress in which they trust.
A wise man goes over the city walls of the powerful, and brings down the strong-place in which they trust.
One wise person went up against a city of warriors and brought down the stronghold in which they trusted.
A city of heroes, doth a wise man scale, and bringeth down the strength of its confidence.
The wise man hath scaled the city of the strong, and hath cast down the strength of the confidence thereof.
A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
A city of the mighty hath the wise gone up, And bringeth down the strength of its confidence.
One sage entered a whole city of armed soldiers— their trusted defenses fell to pieces!
A wise man scales the city of the mighty And brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
2 Samuel 20:16-22, Ecclesiastes 7:19, Ecclesiastes 9:13-18
Reciprocal: Proverbs 24:5 - A wise Ecclesiastes 9:16 - Wisdom Daniel 2:23 - who hast
Cross-References
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. Then Abimelech King of Gerar sent and tooke Sarah.
Then Abraham prayed vnto God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his women seruants: and they bare children.
For Sarah conceiued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, at the same season that God tolde him.
And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, which Sarah bare him, Izhak.
Then came Abimelech to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friendes, and Phichol the captaine of his armie.
Who answered, Wee sawe certainely that the Lorde was with thee, and wee thought thus, Let there be nowe an othe betweene vs, euen betweene vs and thee, and let vs make a couenant with thee.
And lo, I am with thee, and wil keepe thee whithersoeuer thou goest, and will bring thee againe into this lande: for I will not forsake thee vntill I haue performed that, that I haue promised thee.
To whom Laban answered, If I haue nowe found fauour in thy sight tarie: I haue perceiued that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.
Then the Lorde saide vnto Ioshua, This day will I begin to magnifie thee in the sight of all Israel, which shall knowe, that as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee.
Then Salomon the sonne of Dauid was confirmed in his kingdome: and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him highly.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A wise [man] scaleth the city of the mighty,.... Which makes good what is elsewhere said, that "wisdom is better than strength", Ecclesiastes 9:16; and sometimes more is done by prudence and wisdom, by art and cunning, by schemes and stratagems, than by power and force; especially in military affairs, and particularly in besieging and taking fortified cities; when one wise man, by his wisdom, may so order and manage things, as to be able, with a few under his command, to mount the walls of a city and take it, though defended by a mighty garrison in it. This may be applied to, our Lord Jesus Christ entering into the city of a man's heart, possessed by the strong man armed; overcoming him, taking from him his armour, and dividing his spoil,
Luke 11:21; compare with this Ecclesiastes 9:14;
and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof; the strong walls, bulwarks, and such fortifications, in which the mighty in the city placed their confidence: and the like does Christ, when he enters into the heart of a sinner by his word and spirit; he destroys all its former strong confidences, and brings it into subjection to himself,
2 Corinthians 10:4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Even in war, counsel does more than brute strength. So of the warfare which is carried on in the inner battlefield of the soul. There also wisdom is mighty to the “pulling down of strongholds” (2 Corinthians 10:4, where Paul uses the very words of the Septuagint Version of this passage), and the wise man scales and keeps the city which the strong man armed has seized and made his own.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 21:22. A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty — Wisdom is in many respects preferable to strength, even in the case of defence. See what skill does in the fortification and reduction of strong places.
