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Complete Jewish Bible

Proverbs 9:5

"Come and eat my food! Drink the wine I have mixed!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hospitality;   Salvation;   Wine;   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Feasts;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Food, Spiritual;   Spiritual;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Entertainments;   Wine;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Wine;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Grapes;   Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Wise, Wisdom;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Fool, Foolishness, and Folly;   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;   Wine;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Proverbs, Book of;   Wisdom;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Come, eat my bread,and drink the wine I have mixed.
Hebrew Names Version
"Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
King James Version
Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
English Standard Version
"Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.
New American Standard Bible
"Come, eat of my food And drink of the wine I have mixed.
New Century Version
Come and eat my food and drink the wine I have prepared.
New English Translation
"Come, eat some of my food, and drink some of the wine I have mixed.
Amplified Bible
"Come, eat my food And drink the wine I have mixed [and accept my gifts].
World English Bible
"Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
Geneva Bible (1587)
Come, and eate of my meate, and drinke of the wine that I haue drawen.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Come, eat of my breadAnd drink of the wine I have mixed.
Berean Standard Bible
"Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine I have mixed.
Contemporary English Version
All of you are welcome to my meat and wine.
Darby Translation
Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine that I have mingled.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Come, eat my food and drink the wine I have prepared.
George Lamsa Translation
Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
Good News Translation
"Come, eat my food and drink the wine that I have mixed.
Lexham English Bible
"Come, eat with my bread; drink with the wine I have mixed.
Literal Translation
Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine I have mixed.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O come on youre waye, eate my bred, and drynke my wyne, which I haue poured out for you.
American Standard Version
Come, eat ye of my bread, And drink of the wine which I have mingled.
Bible in Basic English
Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
King James Version (1611)
Come, eate of my bread, and drinke of the wine, which I haue mingled.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O come on your way, eate my bread, and drinke my wine [whiche] I haue powred out for you.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Come, eat of my bread, and drink wine which I have mingled for you.
English Revised Version
Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Come ye, ete ye my breed; and drynke ye the wiyn, which Y haue medlid to you.
Update Bible Version
Come, eat of my bread, And drink of the wine which I have mingled.
Webster's Bible Translation
Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine [which] I have mingled.
New King James Version
"Come, eat of my bread And drink of the wine I have mixed.
New Living Translation
"Come, eat my food, and drink the wine I have mixed.
New Life Bible
"Come and eat my food, and drink the wine I have mixed.
New Revised Standard
"Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Come, feed on my food, and drink of the wine I have mingled;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you.
Revised Standard Version
"Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.
Young's Literal Translation
`Come, eat of my bread, And drink of the wine I have mingled.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Come, eat of my food And drink of the wine I have mixed.

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

Proverbs 9:2, Proverbs 9:17, Psalms 22:26, Psalms 22:29, Song of Solomon 5:1, Isaiah 55:1-3, Jeremiah 31:12-14, Matthew 26:26-28, John 6:27, John 6:49-58

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:15 - This is 2 Chronicles 9:4 - the meat Isaiah 55:2 - eat 1 Corinthians 11:24 - eat

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noach and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:9
"As for me — I am herewith establishing my covenant with you, with your descendants after you,
Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that is with you — the birds, the livestock and every wild animal with you, all going out of the ark, every animal on earth.
Genesis 9:28
After the flood Noach lived 350 years.
Genesis 9:29
In all, Noach lived 950 years; then he died.
Exodus 20:13
ו "Do not murder. ז "Do not commit adultery. ח "Do not steal. ט "Do not give false evidence against your neighbor.
Exodus 21:12
"Whoever attacks a person and causes his death must be put to death.
Leviticus 19:16
"‘Do not go around spreading slander among your people, but also don't stand idly by when your neighbor's life is at stake; I am Adonai .
Psalms 9:12
Sing praises to Adonai , who lives in Tziyon; proclaim his deeds among the peoples.
Matthew 23:35
And so, on you will fall the guilt for all the innocent blood that has ever been shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Hevel to the blood of Z'kharyah Ben-Berekhyah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Come, eat of my bread,.... Which stands for all the provisions of Christ's house; it designs the Gospel, which to a believer is more than his necessary food; and the ordinance of the supper, one of the symbols of which is bread; and more especially Christ himself, the bread of God, the living bread that came down from heaven, which is to be eaten by faith; and this only, for everything else is that which is not bread; and this daily, as the Israelites ate their manna; this is the believer's daily bread; and largely and freely, to which they are welcome by Christ; and with gladness and singleness of heart, joyfully and with sincerity;

and drink of the wine [which] I have mingled; of the love of Christ; or of the love of the Father, Son, and Spirit, which meet and mingle together: to "drink" of this is to partake of it by faith, and be persuaded of interest in it; this may be drank largely of, for there is enough, a river of it; and without danger, it is not intoxicating as wine, wherein is excess; and it may be had freely, without money and without price, Song of Solomon 1:2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A parallel to the higher teaching of the Gospels (compare John 6:27; Matthew 26:26).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 9:5. Come, eat of my bread — Not only receive my instructions, but act according to my directions.

Drink of the wine - I have mingled. — Enter into my counsels; be not contented with superficial knowledge on any subject, where any thing deeper may be attained. Go by the streams to the fountain head. Look into the principles on which they were formed; investigate their nature, examine their properties, acquaint thyself with their relations, connections, influences, and various uses. See the skill, power, and goodness of God in their creation. And when thou hast learned all within thy reach, know that thou knowest but little of the manifold wisdom of God. Let what thou hast learned humble thee, by showing thee how very little thou dost know. Thou hast drunk of the provided wine; but that wine was mingled with water, for God will hide pride from man. He dwells only on the surface of religious and philosophical learning, who does not perceive and feel that he is yet but a child in knowledge; that he see through a glass darkly; that he perceives men like trees walking; and that there are lengths, breadths, depths, and heights, in the works and ways of God, which it will require an eternity to fathom. Here below the pure wine is mingled with water: but this is God's work. Yet there is enough; do not therefore be contented with a little. To this subject the words of the poet may be well applied: -

A little learning is a dangerous thing;

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:

For scanty draughts intoxicate the brain,

But drinking largely sobers us again.

POPE


Among the ancient Jews, Greeks, and Romans, wine was rarely drank without being mingled with water; and among ancient writers we find several ordinances for this. Some direct three parts of water to one of wine; some five parts; and Pliny mentions some wines that required twenty waters: but the most common proportions appear to have been three parts of water to two of wine. But probably the יין מסך yayin masach, mingled wine, was wine mingled, not with water, to make it weaker; but with spices and other ingredients to make it stronger. The ingredients were honey, myrrh, mandragora, opium, and such like, which gave it not only an intoxicating but stupifying quality also. Perhaps the mixed wine here may mean wine of the strongest and best quality, that which was good to cheer and refresh the heart of man.

If we consider the mixed wine as meaning this strong wine, then the import of the metaphor will be, a thorough investigation of the works of God will invigorate the soul, strengthen all the mental powers, enlarge their capacity, and enable the mind to take the most exalted views of the wonders of God's skill manifested in the operations of his hand.


 
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