14I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
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: …
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-23)Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing would be so entertaining to the audience, nor give them so much di…
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