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Complete Jewish Bible

Proverbs 9:3

She has sent out her young girls [with invitations]; she calls from the heights of the city,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hospitality;   Salvation;   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Call, Divine;   Feasts;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Food, Spiritual;   Spiritual;   Wisdom;   Wisdom's Call;   Wisdom-Folly;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Call of God, the;   Entertainments;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Grapes;   Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Entertain;   Wise, Wisdom;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Banquets;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Prostitution;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lord's Supper (Ii);   Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   Winter ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Meals;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Highest;   Proverbs, Book of;   Wisdom;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Banquets;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abba;   Banquets;   Rabbah Bar Bar Ḥana;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She has sent out her female servants;she calls out from the highest points of the city:
Hebrew Names Version
She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:
King James Version
She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
English Standard Version
She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town,
New American Standard Bible
She has sent out her attendants, she calls out From the tops of the heights of the city:
New Century Version
She has sent out her servant girls, and she calls out from the highest place in the city.
New English Translation
She has sent out her female servants; she calls out on the highest places of the city.
Amplified Bible
She has sent out her maidens, she calls From the highest places of the city:
World English Bible
She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:
Geneva Bible (1587)
She hath sent forth her maydens and cryeth vpon the highest places of the citie, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
She has sent out her maidens, she callsFrom the tops of the heights of the city:
Berean Standard Bible
She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city:
Contemporary English Version
She has sent her servant women to announce her invitation from the highest hills:
Darby Translation
she hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the summits of the high places of the city,
Easy-to-Read Version
She has sent her servant girls to announce from the highest hill in the city,
George Lamsa Translation
She has sent forth her servants to cry out upon the highest places and say,
Good News Translation
She has sent her servant women to call out from the highest place in town:
Lexham English Bible
She has sent her servant girls, she calls upon the wings of the high places of town,
Literal Translation
She has sent out her maidens; she cries on the highest places of the city;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
She hath sent forth hir maydens to crie vpo the hyest place of the cite:
American Standard Version
She hath sent forth her maidens; She crieth upon the highest places of the city:
Bible in Basic English
She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
She hath sent forth her maidens, she calleth, upon the highest places of the city:
King James Version (1611)
She hath sent forth her maidens; she cryeth vpon the highest places of the citie.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
She hath sent foorth her maydens to crye vpon the highest place of the citie,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
She has sent forth her servants, calling with a loud proclamation to the feast, saying,
English Revised Version
She hath sent forth her maidens, she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He sente hise handmaides, that thei schulden clepe to the tour; and to the wallis of the citee.
Update Bible Version
She has sent forth her maidens; She cries on the highest places of the city:
Webster's Bible Translation
She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
New King James Version
She has sent out her maidens, She cries out from the highest places of the city,
New Living Translation
She has sent her servants to invite everyone to come. She calls out from the heights overlooking the city.
New Life Bible
She has sent out the young women who work for her. She calls from the highest places of the city,
New Revised Standard
She has sent out her servant-girls, she calls from the highest places in the town,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
hath sent forth her maidens, She crieth aloud, upon the tops of the heights of the city:
Douay-Rheims Bible
She hath sent her maids to invite to the tower, and to the walls of the city:
Revised Standard Version
She has sent out her maids to call from the highest places in the town,
Young's Literal Translation
She hath sent forth her damsels, She crieth on the tops of the high places of the city:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
She has sent out her maidens, she calls From the tops of the heights of the city:

Contextual Overview

1 Wisdom has built herself a house; she has carved her seven pillars. 2 She has prepared her food, spiced her wine, and she has set her table. 3 She has sent out her young girls [with invitations]; she calls from the heights of the city, 4 "Whoever is unsure of himself, turn in here!" To someone weak-willed she says, 5 "Come and eat my food! Drink the wine I have mixed! 6 Don't stay unsure of yourself, but live! Walk in the way of understanding!" 7 "He who corrects a scoffer only gets insulted; reproving a wicked man becomes his blemish. 8 If you reprove a scoffer, he will hate you; if you reprove a wise man, he will love you. 9 Give to a wise man, and he grows still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will learn still more. 10 The fear of Adonai is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of holy ones is understanding.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sent: Matthew 22:3, Matthew 22:4, Matthew 22:9, Luke 11:49, Luke 14:17, Luke 14:21-23, Romans 10:15, 2 Corinthians 5:20, 2 Corinthians 5:21

she crieth: Proverbs 9:14, Proverbs 1:20-23, Proverbs 8:1-3, John 7:37, John 18:20

Reciprocal: Proverbs 1:21 - General Jeremiah 17:19 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noach and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you; just as I gave you green plants before, so now I give you everything —
Genesis 9:5
I will certainly demand an accounting for the blood of your lives: I will demand it from every animal and from every human being. I will demand from every human being an accounting for the life of his fellow human being.
Genesis 9:12
God added, "Here is the sign of the covenant I am making between myself and you and every living creature with you, for all generations to come:
Genesis 9:14
Whenever I bring clouds over the earth, and the rainbow is seen in the cloud;
Genesis 9:15
I will remember my covenant which is between myself and you and every living creature of any kind; and the water will never again become a flood to destroy all living beings.
Genesis 9:21
He drank so much of the wine that he got drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.
Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Kena‘an, saw his father shamefully exposed, went out and told his two brothers.
Genesis 9:25
He said, "Cursed be Kena‘an; he will be a servant of servants to his brothers."
Genesis 9:26
Then he said, "Blessed be Adonai , the God of Shem; Kena‘an will be their servant.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

She hath sent forth her maidens,.... Not moral virtues, or good works, which subserve the interest of Christ and religion, adorn the Gospel and its professors; nor the liberal arts and sciences, said to be handmaids to divinity; nor angels, ministering spirits to Christ; but the ministers of the Gospel, who being so called does not suppose or encourage women's preaching; but have the name to keep up the decency of the parable, and the propriety of the allegory: for since Wisdom is represented as a lady, a princess or queen, it is proper that her attendants should be maidens, or that she should employ such in inviting her guests; as Rebekah, Pharaoh's daughter, Esther, and others, are said to have their maidens to wait upon them: and besides, it very fitly expresses the character of Gospel ministers; as that they are the servants of Christ, followers of him, obsequious to him, humble and modest, incorrupt in doctrine, pure in conversation, and whose voice is soft, pleasant, and delightful: being not the rough voice of the law, but the still, small, musical voice of the Gospel; a voice of love, grace, and mercy; of peace, pardon, and righteousness, liberty, life, and salvation; very charming, alluring, and drawing. These Christ has a property in; he chooses and calls them, and fits them for his service; and they give up themselves to him, and willingly engage in it. And these he "sends forth": from him they have their mission and commission to preach the Gospel; to invite persons to the Gospel feast, to partake of the provisions he has made: he sends them forth publicly into the world, into all places where his people are, into the streets and lanes; yea, to the hedges and highways, to invite, and even to compel them to come in. And this supposes superiority in him, and authority given to them;

she crieth upon the high places of the city; this is to be understood of the preaching of the Gospel, both by Christ himself in person, in the city of Jerusalem, in the temple, and other public places; and by his ministers, and by him speaking in them there or elsewhere; and which is not a mere whisper, but a cry, a proclamation made aloud, and to be delivered with fervency and earnestness: the "city" may mean the church of God, and the "highest places" the ordinances thereof; and may in general denote the publicness of them; which are in the church, as the wings or pinnacles of the higher parts or buildings of a city are in that, as the word l signifies.

l על גפי "super alas"; Montanus, so Ben Melech; "super pinnis", Piscator, Amama; "in pinnnaculis": Cocceius; "super convexitatibas", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wisdom and the “foolish woman” Proverbs 9:13 speak from the same places and to the same class - the simple, undecided, wavering, standing at the diverging point of the two paths that lead to life or death.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 9:3. She hath sent forth her maidens — The wisdom of God has made use of the most proper means to communicate Divine knowledge to the inhabitants of the earth; as a good and gracious Creator wills to teach them whence they came, how they are supported, whither they are going, and for what end they were formed. It is a custom to the present day, in Asiatic countries, to send their invitations to guests by a company of females, preceded by eunuchs: they go to the doors of the invited, and deliver their message.


 
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