Proverbs 7:14

I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. (I HAVE) PEACE OFFERINGS WITH ME; THIS DAY HAVE I PAID MY VOWS - literally, 'Peace offerings (were) upon me.' It so happened that today I have been paying my vows by offering thank offerings, which were incumbent on me to offer, for peace and prosperity vouchsafed to me. Compare the same phrase, , "Thy vows (are) upon me." How subtle is her device! She virtually says, 'I have an abundant feast of choice meats ready prepared;' for the choicest and most perfect victims were required for "peace offerings" (), and of these (not so in sin offerings or holocausts) the greatest share was returned to the offerer (;...

6-27 Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after Solomon has set before his eyes in so lively and plain a manner, the danger of even going near them? Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of a lofty rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the same place. The misery of self-ruined sinners began in disregard to God's blessed commands. We ought daily to pray that we may be kept from running into temptation, else we invite the enemies of our souls to spread snares for us. Ever avoid the neighbourhood of vice. Beware of sins which are said to be pleasant sins. They are the more dangerous, because they most easily gain the heart, and close it against repentance. Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it....

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. Much light is cast o...

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, 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

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 7:1 13. _Thirteenth admonitory discourse, _containing a warning against adultery, treated under a different aspect from previous exhortations, and strengthened by an example. In this chapter and the following a contrast is drawn between the adulteress and Wisdom. PROVERBS 7:1 MY SON, KEEP MY WORDS. The teacher enjoins his pupil, as in Proverbs 2:1, to observe the rules which he gives. Lay up, as a precious treasure (see on Proverbs 2:1 and Proverbs 2:7

[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 suc...

CHAPTER 7 The entire chapter is a continuation of the strange woman and the warning against her. The Word and the law of the Lord will keep the obedient son from her. If Solomon had obeyed the Word of God, not to multiply wives (Deuteronomy 17:17) his end would not have been spent in the degrading fellowship with the harlots of other nations. The description is very graphic. What the word pictures is as prominent in the great centers of Christendom as it was thousands of years ago in Babylon and Egypt. And so it is still true: _ She hath cast down many wounded;_ Yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, Going down to the chambers of death. But think of Solomon after having received these inspired descriptions and warnings, that he should have been forgetful of them all....

The longest and most elaborate description of the adulteress, the fate of her victim, and the value of wisdom as a safeguard. PROVERBS 7:1. General advice to the young man to observe the commandments and the torah of the sage, that he may be preserved from the adulteress. PROVERBS 7:3 B. _cf._ 2 Corinthians 3:3, and for the opposite thought Jeremiah 17:1. Proverbs 7:4. kinswoman: lit. one well known, familiar friend, only in Ruth 2:1;...

_with me_ Lit. UPON ME, as A.V. marg., which may either and more probably mean, I am, as it were, loaded with them, you have come just when I wanted you, because there is abundance of good cheer in my house; or, they were incumbent upon me, _due from me_(R.V. marg.). The flesh of "peace-offerings for thanksgiving" was to be eaten on the day on which it was offered; but if it were "a vow, or a freewill offering," what remained might be eaten on the morrow (Leviticus 7:15-16). She would represent him therefore as having happily lighted on her feast-day, when she was looking out and longing for his company. It is most unnatural to suppose that a foreign woman would thus accommodate herself to Jewish religious customs and seasons, especially when it is remembered that the example of accommodation set by the Court was quite the other way ...

I HAVE PEACE-OFFERINGS WITH ME— This woman was the more abominable, as she covered her lewdness with the mask of piety and devotion. There were three sorts of _peace-offerings._ See Leviticus 7:11; Leviticus 12:8. Bishop Patrick takes these mentioned here to have been the last of them; offerings of thanksgiving for blessings already obtained; not of prayer for blessings not yet received: and his reason is, because she was so solicitous to have company at her feast upon this very day. Every body knows that such sacrifices were to be of the best; either of bullocks, sheep, or goats (Leviticus 6:12.); and that the greatest part of them fell to the share of the person who offered them, that he might feast with God.