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 goeth vp into the citie of the mightie, and casteth downe the strength of the confidence thereof.
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 says concerning his wife Sarah, "She is my sister"; and Abimelech king of Gerar sends and takes Sarah.
And Abraham prays to God, and God heals Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bear:
and Sarah conceives, and bears a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God has spoken of with him;
and Abraham calls the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah has borne to him—Isaac;
And Abimelech has gone to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol head of his host;
And they say, "We have certainly seen that YHWH has been with you, and we say, Now let there be an oath between us, between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;
And behold, I [am] with you, and have kept you wherever you go, and have caused you to return to this ground; for I do not leave you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you."
And Laban says to him, "Now if I have found grace in your eyes—I have observed diligently that YHWH blesses me for your sake."
And YHWH says to Joshua, "This day I begin to make you great in the eyes of all Israel, so that they know that as I was with Moses I am with you;
And Solomon son of David strengthens himself over his kingdom, and his God YHWH [is] with him, and makes him exceedingly great.
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 âpulling down of strongholdsâ (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.
