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Selected Verse: Proverbs 15:17 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 15:17 |
King James |
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
dinner--or, "allowance" (Kg2 25:30) --
of herbs--and that the plainest.
and hatred--(compare Pro 10:12, Pro 10:18). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| A dinner of herbs - The meals of the poor and the abstemious. The "stalled ox," like the "fatted calf" of Luk 15:23, would indicate a stately magnificence. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Better is a dinner of herbs - Great numbers of indigent Hindoos subsist wholly on herbs, fried in oil, and mixed with their rice. |
18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: