Proverbs 9:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.

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  • Isa 25:6 : 6 And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested.
  • Matt 22:3-9 : 3 And sent out his servants to get in the guests to the feast: and they would not come. 4 Again he sent out other servants, with orders to say to the guests, See, I have made ready my feast: my oxen and my fat beasts have been put to death, and all things are ready: come to the feast. 5 But they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade: 6 And the rest put violent hands on his servants, and did evil to them, and put them to death. 7 But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire. 8 Then he said to his servants, The feast is ready but the guests were not good enough. 9 Go then to the cross-roads, and get all those whom you see to come to the bride-feast. 10 And those servants went out into the streets, and got together all those whom they came across, bad and good: and the feast was full of guests. 11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe; 12 And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say. 13 Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow. 14 For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.
  • Gen 43:16 : 16 And the servant did as Joseph said, and took the men into Joseph's house.
  • Prov 9:5 : 5 Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.
  • Prov 23:30 : 30 Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.
  • Song 8:2 : 2 I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.
  • Luke 14:16-17 : 16 And he said to them, A certain man gave a great feast, and sent word of it to a number of people. 17 And when the time had come, he sent his servants to say to them, Come, for all things are now ready.
  • 1 Cor 5:7-8 : 7 Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover. 8 Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

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    3 She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,

    4 Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

    5 Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.

  • Prov 9:1
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    1 Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.

  • Prov 9:13-16
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    13 The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

    14 Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,

    15 Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:

    16 Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

  • Prov 7:26-27
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    26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

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  • Prov 7:10-12
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    10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

    11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

    12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

  • Prov 2:18
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    18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

  • Prov 8:2
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    2 At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

  • Rev 18:6-7
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    6 Give to her as she gave, even an increased reward for her works; in the cup which was mixed by her, let there be mixed as much again for herself.

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  • Prov 1:20-21
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    20 Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

    21 Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

  • Hos 2:8
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    8 For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.

  • Rev 18:3
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    3 For through the wine of the wrath of her evil desires all the nations have come to destruction; and the kings of the earth made themselves unclean with her, and the traders of the earth had their wealth increased by the power of her evil ways.

  • Hos 9:2
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    2 The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.

  • Rev 17:2
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    2 With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.

  • Hos 4:11
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    11 Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

  • Ezek 23:41-42
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    41 And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

    42 ... and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful crowns on her head.

  • Prov 14:1
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    1 Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.

  • Hab 2:15
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    15 A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!

  • Prov 5:4
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    4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

  • Rev 17:4
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    4 And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels; and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires;

  • Ezek 24:7
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    7 For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;

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    20 This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

  • Prov 31:22
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    22 She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple.

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    17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

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    9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

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    14 She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.

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    21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

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    14 And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,

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    4 Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.

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    10 By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right.

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    22 Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

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    15 About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

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    22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!

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    30 Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?

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    34 And he came in, and took food and drink; then he said, Now see to this cursed woman, and put her body into the earth, for she is a king's daughter.

  • Rev 18:9
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    9 And the kings of the earth, who made themselves unclean with her, and in her company gave themselves up to evil, will be weeping and crying over her, when they see the smoke of her burning,

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    9 So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.

  • Jer 6:7
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    7 As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.