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THE MESSAGE
Proverbs 9:3
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She has sent out her female servants;she calls out from the highest points of the city:
She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:
She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town,
She has sent out her attendants, she calls out From the tops of the heights of the city:
She has sent out her servant girls, and she calls out from the highest place in the city.
She has sent out her female servants; she calls out on the highest places of the city.
She has sent out her maidens, she calls From the highest places of the city:
She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:
She hath sent forth her maydens and cryeth vpon the highest places of the citie, saying,
She has sent out her maidens, she callsFrom the tops of the heights of the city:
She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city:
She has sent her servant women to announce her invitation from the highest hills:
She has sent out her young girls [with invitations]; she calls from the heights of the city,
she hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the summits of the high places of the city,
She has sent her servant girls to announce from the highest hill in the city,
She has sent forth her servants to cry out upon the highest places and say,
She has sent her servant women to call out from the highest place in town:
She has sent her servant girls, she calls upon the wings of the high places of town,
She has sent out her maidens; she cries on the highest places of the city;
She hath sent forth hir maydens to crie vpo the hyest place of the cite:
She hath sent forth her maidens; She crieth upon the highest places of the city:
She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,
She hath sent forth her maidens, she calleth, upon the highest places of the city:
She hath sent forth her maidens; she cryeth vpon the highest places of the citie.
She hath sent foorth her maydens to crye vpon the highest place of the citie,
She has sent forth her servants, calling with a loud proclamation to the feast, saying,
She hath sent forth her maidens, she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
He sente hise handmaides, that thei schulden clepe to the tour; and to the wallis of the citee.
She has sent forth her maidens; She cries on the highest places of the city:
She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
She has sent out her maidens, She cries out from the highest places of the city,
She has sent her servants to invite everyone to come. She calls out from the heights overlooking the city.
She has sent out the young women who work for her. She calls from the highest places of the city,
She has sent out her servant-girls, she calls from the highest places in the town,
hath sent forth her maidens, She crieth aloud, upon the tops of the heights of the city:
She hath sent her maids to invite to the tower, and to the walls of the city:
She has sent out her maids to call from the highest places in the town,
She hath sent forth her damsels, She crieth on the tops of the high places of the city:
She has sent out her maidens, she calls From the tops of the heights of the city:
Contextual Overview
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
God blessed Noah and his sons: He said, "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill the Earth! Every living creature—birds, animals, fish—will fall under your spell and be afraid of you. You're responsible for them. All living creatures are yours for food; just as I gave you the plants, now I give you everything else. Except for meat with its lifeblood still in it—don't eat that.
"But your own lifeblood I will avenge; I will avenge it against both animals and other humans.
God continued, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and everything living around you and everyone living after you. I'm putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. From now on, when I form a cloud over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll remember my covenant between me and you and everything living, that never again will floodwaters destroy all life. When the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll see it and remember the eternal covenant between God and everything living, every last living creature on Earth."
It's permissible to slaughter your nonsacrificial animals like gazelle and deer in your towns and eat all you want from them with the blessing of God , your God. Both the ritually clean and unclean may eat.
God's kingdom isn't a matter of what you put in your stomach, for goodness' sake. It's what God does with your life as he sets it right, puts it together, and completes it with joy. Your task is to single-mindedly serve Christ. Do that and you'll kill two birds with one stone: pleasing the God above you and proving your worth to the people around you.
Looking at it one way, you could say, "Anything goes. Because of God's immense generosity and grace, we don't have to dissect and scrutinize every action to see if it will pass muster." But the point is not to just get by. We want to live well, but our foremost efforts should be to help others live well.
So eat your meals heartily, not worrying about what others say about you—you're eating to God's glory, after all, not to please them. As a matter of fact, do everything that way, heartily and freely to God's glory. At the same time, don't be callous in your exercise of freedom, thoughtlessly stepping on the toes of those who aren't as free as you are. I try my best to be considerate of everyone's feelings in all these matters; I hope you will be, too.
So don't put up with anyone pressuring you in details of diet, worship services, or holy days. All those things are mere shadows cast before what was to come; the substance is Christ.
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.
