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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Amsal 17:1

Lebih baik sekerat roti yang kering disertai dengan ketenteraman, dari pada makanan daging serumah disertai dengan perbantahan.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Contentment;   Meekness;   Peace;   Strife;   Thompson Chain Reference - Quietness;   Quietness-Tumult;   The Topic Concordance - Peace;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Strife;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Wealth;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Contentment;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Morsel;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lebih baik sekerat roti yang kering disertai dengan ketenteraman, dari pada makanan daging serumah disertai dengan perbantahan.

Contextual Overview

1 Better is a drye morsell with quietnesse, then a house full of fat offeryng with strife.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a dry: Proverbs 15:17, Psalms 37:16

an house: Proverbs 7:14

sacrifices: or, good cheer

with: Proverbs 21:9, Proverbs 21:19

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:24 - the king Ecclesiastes 4:6 - General 1 Thessalonians 4:11 - that 2 Thessalonians 3:12 - that with James 5:5 - as in

Cross-References

Genesis 5:22
And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.
Genesis 5:24
And Henoch walked with God: and he was no more seene, for God toke him away.
Genesis 12:1
And the Lord had sayde vnto Abram: get thee out of thy coutrey, and out of thy nation, and from thy fathers house, vnto a lande that I wyll shewe thee:
Genesis 12:7
And the Lorde appearyng vnto Abram, sayd, Unto thy seede wyl I geue this lande: And there buylded he an aulter vnto the Lorde whiche appeared vnto hym.
Genesis 16:16
And Abram was foure score and sixe yeres olde, when Hagar bare Ismael to hym.
Genesis 18:1
And the Lorde appeared vnto hym in the playne of Mamre, and he sate in his tent doore in the heate of the day.
Genesis 18:14
Is any thing vnpossible to God? Accordyng to the tyme appoynted wyll I returne vnto thee [euen] according to the time of life: & Sara [shall] haue a sonne.
Genesis 28:3
And God almyghtie blesse thee, and make thee to encrease, & multiplie thee, that thou mayest be a number of people:
Genesis 35:11
And God sayd vnto him: I am God almightie, be fruitefull and multiplie: a nation, and a multitude of nations shall spring of thee, yea and kinges shall come out of thy loynes.
Genesis 48:15
And he blessed Ioseph, and sayde: God in whose syght my fathers Abraham & Isahac dyd walke, God which hath fedde me al my lyfe long vnto this day,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith,.... A small quantity of bread; a broken piece of bread, as the word w signifies; which has been long broken off, and become "dry" x; a dry crust of bread; old bread, as the Arabic version; an old, mouldy, dry piece of bread: and the word used has the signification of destruction in it: bread that has lost its taste and virtue; or, however, a mere piece of bread is meant, without anything to eat with it, as Gersom, butter, cheese, or flesh: this, with quietness and peace among those that partake of it, peace in the family, in a man's own mind, especially if he has the peace of God, which passeth all understanding; this is better

than a house full of sacrifices [with] strife; than a house ever so well furnished with good cheer, or a table ever so richly spread; or where there is plenty of slain beasts for food, or for sacrifice, which were usually the best, and part of which the people had to eat, and at which times feasts used to be made; but the meanest food, with tranquillity and contentment, is preferable to the richest entertainment where there is nothing but strife and contention among the guests; for, where that is, there is confusion and every evil work: peace and joy in the Holy Ghost are better than meats and drinks. Mr. Dod used to say,

"brown bread and the Gospel are good fare;''

see Proverbs 15:17.

w פת "frustrum", a פתת, "fregit", Gejerus. x חרבה "siccum frustum panis", Tigurine version; "cibi sicci" Junius Tremellius "brucella sicca", V. L. Mercerus, Piscator; "buccea sicca", Cocceuis; "frustum sicci, sc. cibi", Michaelis, "frustum siccae buccellae, Schultens, so Ben Melech.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sacrifices - The feast accompanied the offerings Proverbs 7:14. Part of the victims were burned upon the altar, the rest was consumed by the worshipper and his friends. The “house full of sacrifices” was therefore one abounding in sumptuous feasts.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XVII

Contentment. The wise servant. The Lord tries the heart.

Children a crown to their parents. We should hide our

neighbour's faults. The poor should not be despised.

Litigations and quarrels to be avoided. Wealth is useless to

a fool. The good friend. A fool may pass for a wise man when

he holds his peace.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVII

Verse Proverbs 17:1. Better is a dry morsel — Peace and contentment, and especially domestic peace, are beyond all other blessings.

A house full of sacrifices — A Hindoo priest, who officiates at a festival, sometimes receives so many offerings that his house is filled with them, so that many of them are damaged before they can be used.-Ward.


 
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