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Cattle » Stall-fed
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
the Diet of the jews » Articles used for » Herbs
For soil that drinks the rain which often falls on it and produces crops useful to those for whose benefit it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God;
Verse Concepts
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
One man’s faith permits him to eat everything, while the weak believer eats only vegetables [to avoid eating ritually unclean meat or something previously considered unclean].
Verse Concepts
the Diet of the jews » Of the poor, frugal
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here and eat some bread and dip your bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers; and he served her roasted grain, and she ate until she was satisfied and she had some left [for Naomi].
Verse Concepts
Family » Infelicity in
It is better to dwell in a desert land
Than with a contentious and troublesome woman.
As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout,
So is a beautiful woman who is without discretion [her lack of character mocks her beauty].
A brother offended is harder to win over than a fortified city,
And contentions [separating families] are like the bars of a castle.
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
A foolish (ungodly) son is destruction to his father,
And the contentions of a [quarrelsome] wife are like a constant dripping [of water].
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop [on the flat roof, exposed to the weather]
Than in a house shared with a quarrelsome (contentious) woman.
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop [on the flat roof, exposed to the weather]
Than in a house shared with a quarrelsome (contentious) woman.
A continual dripping on a day of violent showers and a contentious woman are alike; Whoever attempts to restrain [a contentious woman] might as well try to stop the wind -- "his right hand encounters oil [and she slips through his fingers].
A virtuous and excellent wife [worthy of honor] is the crown of her husband,
But she who shames him [with her foolishness] is like rottenness in his bones.
But the foolish one [who lacks spiritual insight] tears it down with her own hands [by ignoring godly principles].
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Under three things the earth is disquieted and quakes,
And under four it cannot bear up:
Under an unloved woman when she gets married,
And under a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.
Under three things the earth is disquieted and quakes,
And under four it cannot bear up:
Under an unloved woman when she gets married,
And under a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.
Food » Articles of » Herbs
For soil that drinks the rain which often falls on it and produces crops useful to those for whose benefit it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God;
Verse Concepts
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
One man’s faith permits him to eat everything, while the weak believer eats only vegetables [to avoid eating ritually unclean meat or something previously considered unclean].
Verse Concepts
Hate » The place where there is hatred
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
Hatred » Condemned
The one who says he is in the Light [in consistent fellowship with Christ] and yet habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in the darkness until now.
Verse Concepts
Everyone who hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is [at heart] a murderer [by God’s standards]; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Verse Concepts
Hatred stirs up strife,
But love covers and overwhelms all transgressions [forgiving and overlooking another’s faults].
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates (works against) his [Christian] brother he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Verse Concepts
‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you may most certainly rebuke your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him.
Verse Concepts
Hatred » Embitters life
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
Herbs » Cultivated for food
For soil that drinks the rain which often falls on it and produces crops useful to those for whose benefit it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God;
Verse Concepts
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
Herbs » Given for food
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
And God said, See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the land and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to all the animals on the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the ground -- "to everything in which there is the breath of life -- "I have given every green plant for food. And it was so.
Love » The place where there is love
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
Love to man » Necessary to true happiness
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
Oxen » Illustrative » (stall fed,) of sumptuous living
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
Oxen » Often stall-fed for slaughter
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
Stall » For cattle
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present
Than a fattened ox served with hatred.