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Text -- Proverbs 15:17 (NET)

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15:17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox where there is hatred.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Stall | Riches | Peace | OX | Malice | MEALS | Love | Herbs | Hatred | HERB | Food | Family | Cattle | more
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JFB: Pro 15:17 - -- Or, "allowance" (2Ki 25:30) --

Or, "allowance" (2Ki 25:30) --

JFB: Pro 15:17 - -- And that the plainest.

And that the plainest.

JFB: Pro 15:17 - -- (compare Pro 10:12, Pro 10:18).

(compare Pro 10:12, Pro 10:18).

Clarke: Pro 15:17 - -- Better is a dinner of herbs - Great numbers of indigent Hindoos subsist wholly on herbs, fried in oil, and mixed with their rice.

Better is a dinner of herbs - Great numbers of indigent Hindoos subsist wholly on herbs, fried in oil, and mixed with their rice.

TSK: Pro 15:17 - -- Pro 17:1, Pro 21:19; Psa 133:1-3; Phi 2:1; 1Jo 4:16

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Barnes: Pro 15:17 - -- A dinner of herbs - The meals of the poor and the abstemious. The "stalled ox,"like the "fatted calf"of Luk 15:23, would indicate a stately mag...

A dinner of herbs - The meals of the poor and the abstemious. The "stalled ox,"like the "fatted calf"of Luk 15:23, would indicate a stately magnificence.

Poole: Pro 15:17 - -- Love true friendship and kindness between those that eat together.

Love true friendship and kindness between those that eat together.

Haydock: Pro 15:17 - -- Calf. Or feast after sacrifice, 1 Kings xvii. 19., and Luke xv. 23.

Calf. Or feast after sacrifice, 1 Kings xvii. 19., and Luke xv. 23.

Gill: Pro 15:17 - -- Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,.... What Plautus i calls "asperam et terrestrem caenam", "a harsh and earthly supper", made of what grows...

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,.... What Plautus i calls "asperam et terrestrem caenam", "a harsh and earthly supper", made of what grows out of the earth; which is got without much cost or care, and dressed with little trouble; a traveller's dinner, as the word k signifies, and a poor one too to travel upon, such as is easily obtained, and presently cooked, and comes cheap. Now, where there are love and good nature in the host that prepares this dinner; or in a family that partakes of such an one, having no better; or among guests invited, who eat friendly together; or in the person that invites them, who receives them cheerfully, and heartily bids them welcome: such a dinner, with such circumstances, is better

than a stalled ox, and hatred therewith; than an ox kept up in the stall for fattening; or than a fatted one, which with the ancients was the principal in a grand entertainment; hence the allusion in Mat 22:4. In the times of Homer, an ox was in high esteem at their festivals; at the feasts made by his heroes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Ajax, an ox was a principal part of them, if not the whole; the back of a fat ox, or a sirloin of beef, was a favourite dish l. Indeed in some ages, both among Greeks and Romans, an ox was abstained from, through a superstitious regard to it, because so useful a creature in ploughing of the land; and it was carried so far as to suppose it to be as sinful to slay an ox as to kill a man m: and Aratus n represents it as not done, neither in the golden nor silver age, but that in the brasen age men first began to kill and eat oxen; but this is to be confuted by the laws of God, Gen 9:3; and by the examples of Abraham and others. Now if there is hatred, either in the host, or in the guests among themselves, or in a family, it must stir up strifes and contentions, and render all enjoyments unpleasant and uncomfortable; see Pro 17:1; but where the love of God is, which is better than life, and the richest enjoyments of it; which sweetens every mercy, and cannot be purchased with money; and secures the best of blessings, the riches of grace and glory, and itself can never be lost; where this is, the meanest diet is preferable to the richest and most costly banquets of wicked men; who are hated and abhorred by the Lord, for their oppression and injustice, their luxury, or their covetousness; for poor men may be loved of God, and the rich be abhorred by him, Psa 10:4.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 15:17 Again the saying concerns troublesome wealth: Loving relationships with simple food are better than a feast where there is hatred. The ideal, of cours...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

MHCC: Pro 15:16-17 - --Believers often have enough when worldly eyes see little; the Lord is with them, without the cares, troubles, and temptations which are with the wealt...

Matthew Henry: Pro 15:16-17 - -- Solomon had said in the foregoing verse that he who has not a large estate, or a great income, but a cheerful spirit, has a continual feast; Chris...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 15:7-17 - -- A second series which begins with a proverb of the power of human speech, and closes with proverbs of the advantages and disadvantages of wealth. ...

Constable: Pro 10:1--22:17 - --II. COUPLETS EXPRESSING WISDOM 10:1--22:16 Chapters 1-9, as we have seen, contain discourses that Solomon eviden...

Constable: Pro 14:1--15:33 - --8. Further advice for wise living chs. 14-15 These proverbs are more difficult to group together under a general heading because there are fewer commo...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 15 (Chapter Introduction) Overview

Poole: Proverbs 15 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 15

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

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