Time after Pentecost · Proper 15 · Year B
Proverbs 9:1-10
Wisdom's Feast
August 15, 2027
Overview & Insights
"Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed." (Proverbs 9:5)
Personified Wisdom builds her house, prepares a banquet, and sends out her servants to invite the simple to leave their foolishness and walk in the way of insight.
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Commentary
Proverbs 9 - The Ways of Wisdom and Folly Enduring Word · David Guzik
A verse-by-verse study of Wisdom's banquet set against the invitation of Folly.
Commentary on Proverbs 9:1-6 Working Preacher
The Lutheran home voice on Wisdom's feast by a named seminary scholar, covering the opening of the reading.
Proverbs Commentaries and Sermons Precept Austin
A gateway to inductive word studies and cross references on the wisdom chapters.
Proverbs 9:1 Commentaries BibleHub
Classic commentaries gathered verse by verse on Wisdom building her house.
Proverbs 9:1 Verse-by-Verse Commentary StudyLight
A large library of expositors stacked verse by verse for a fifth voice on the passage.
Background & Word Study
Proverbs 9 (Hebrew and English) Sefaria
The Hebrew of Wisdom's invitation alongside English with linked Jewish commentary for the OT reading.
Proverbs 9:1 Interlinear BibleHub
The Hebrew of the passage word by word with parsing and Strong's numbers.
Enter the Bible: Proverbs Enter the Bible
Luther Seminary's book introduction to Proverbs for the shape of its wisdom poems.
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