Proverbs 7 · Verse 14

Proverbs 7:14

I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
Proverbs 7:14, King James Version

Proverbs 7:14 in other translations

BSB“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.
WEB“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.
ASVSacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows.
YLT‘Sacrifices of peace-offerings are by me, To-day I have completed my vows.
DARBYI have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
BBEI have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.
WebsterI have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.

What does Proverbs 7:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 7:13-15

13-15. The preparations for a feast do not necessarily imply peculiar religious professions. The offerer retained part of the victim for a feast (Le 3:9, &c.). This feast she professes was prepared for him whom she boldly addresses as one sought specially to partake of it.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 I have peace-offerings with me - More literally, "the sacrifices of the peace-offerings are with me." Peace-offerings Mymlv 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; see the notes on Leviticus 7 (note), 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 Lev 3:1-11. Much light is cast on this place by the fact that the gods in many parts of the East are actually worshipped in brothels, and fragments of the offerings are divided among the wretches who fall into the snare of the prostitutes - Ward's Customs. Have I payed my vows - She seems to insinuate that she had made a vow for the health and safety of this young man; and having done so, and prepared the sacrificial banquet, came actually out to seek him, that he might partake of it with her, Pro 7:15. But, as she intended to proceed farther than mere friendship, she was obliged to avail herself of the night season, and the absence of her husband.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 7:6-27

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…

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Proverbs 7:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

זִבְחֵ֣יziv.Cheisacrifices ofH2077
שְׁלָמִ֣יםshe.la.Mimpeace offeringsH8002
עָלָ֑י'a.Lai[are] on meH5921
הַ֝יּ֗וֹםhai.Yomthis dayH3117
שִׁלַּ֥מְתִּיshi.Lam.tiI have paidH7999
נְדָרָֽי\׃ne.da.Raivows myH5088

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 7:14

  • Proverbs 21:27

    The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

  • Leviticus 7:11

    And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the Lord.

  • Proverbs 17:1

    Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

  • John 18:28

    Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

  • Proverbs 15:8

    The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

  • Deuteronomy 12:6-7

    And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

  • 2 Samuel 15:7-9

    And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the Lord, in Hebron. For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord. And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.

  • 1 Kings 21:9-10

    And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.

  • Leviticus 7:15-16

    And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning. But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I have peace offerings with me. Heb. Peace-offerings areupon me.
15:8; 17:1; 21:27; Le 7:15; De 12:6,7
this.
2Sa 15:7-9; 1Ki 21:9,10; Joh 18:28

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Context

  • Proverbs 7:13

    So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

  • Proverbs 7:14

    I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

  • Proverbs 7:15

    Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

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Proverbs 7:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Sacrificios de paz había prometido, hoy he pagado mis votos;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		J’ai chez moi des sacrifices de prospérités, j’ai aujourd’hui payé mes vœux;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Friedensopfer lagen mir ob, heute habe ich meine Gelübde bezahlt;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Victimas pro salute vovi; hodie reddidi vota mea: