Amsal 25:22

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Karena engkau akan menimbun bara api di atas kepalanya, dan TUHAN akan membalas itu kepadamu.

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Karena engkau akan menimbun bara api di atas kepalanya, dan TUHAN akan membalas itu kepadamu.

Contextual Overview

²¹ If thyne enemie hunger, feede hym, if he thirst, geue him drinke: ²² For so shalt thou heape coles of fire vpon his head, and the Lorde shall rewarde thee.

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
(Before time in Israel when a man went to seke an aunswere of God, thus wyse he spake, Come and let vs go to the Seer: For he that is now called a prophete, was in the olde tyme called a Seer.

1 Samuel 10:22
Therfore they asked the Lord further, if the man should yet come thyther? And the Lord aunswered: Behold he hath hyd him selfe among the stuffe.

1 Samuel 22:15
Haue I this day begun first to aske councell of God for him? That be farre from me: Let not the king impute any thing vnto his seruaut, nor to all ye house of my father: For thy seruaunt knewe nothing of all this, either lesse or more.

1 Samuel 28:6
And when Saul asked councell of the Lorde, the Lorde aunswered him not, neither by dreames, nor by Urim, nor yet by prophetes.

1 Samuel 30:8
And Dauid asked councel at the Lord, saying: Shall I follow after this company? shall I ouertake them? And he aunswered him: Folowe, for thou shalt suerlie ouertake them, and recouer all.

Ezekiel 20:31
For when ye offer your giftes, & make your sonnes to passe through the fire, you are polluted with all your idols vnto this day: shall I aunswere you when I am asked, O house of Israel? As I liue saith the Lorde God, I wyll not be sought of you.

Ezekiel 36:37
Thus saith the Lorde God: I wyll yet for this be sought of the house of Israel, to do it for them, I wyll multiplie them as a flocke of men,

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.