Proverbs 17:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

Proverbs 17:1 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 15:17
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Psalms 37:16
A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1)

These words recommend family-love and peace, as conducing very much to the comfort of human life. 1. Those that live in unity and quietness, not only free from jealousies and animosities, but vying in mutual endearments, and obliging to one another, live very comfortably, though they are low in the world, work hard and fare hard, though they have but each of them a morsel, and that a dry morsel. T…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Pr 17:1-28. 1. sacrifices--or, “feasts” made with part of them (compare Pr 7:14; Le 2:3; 7:31). with--literally, “of.” strife--its product, or attendant.