through knowledge its rooms are filled with every precious and beautiful treasure.
Parallel translations
- WEB by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.
- KJV And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
- NKJV By knowledge the rooms are filled With all precious and pleasant riches.
- NASB And by knowledge the rooms are filled With all precious and pleasant riches.
- NLT Through knowledge its rooms are filled with all sorts of precious riches and valuables.
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Quick answer
Knowledge fills a well-built life with precious and beautiful treasures.
Overview
Completing the building metaphor, knowledge furnishes the household with rich and lovely riches. The treasures may be material or, more deeply, the spiritual wealth wisdom brings. Scripture's true riches are found in Christ, "in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Col. 2:3).
Cross-references & the web
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- Prov 15:6The house of the righteous has great treasure, but the income of the wicked is trouble.
- Prov 21:20Precious treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man consumes them.
- Prov 20:15There is an abundance of gold and rubies, but lips of knowledge are a rare treasure.
- Prov 8:21bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.
- Matt 13:52Then He told them, “For this reason, every scribe who has been discipled in the kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”
- 1 Chr 29:2–9Now with all my ability I have made provision for the house of my God—gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx for the settings, turquoise, stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and slabs of marble—all in abundance.
- Neh 13:5–13and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.
- 2 Chr 4:18–22Solomon made all these articles in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze could not be determined.
- 2 Chr 26:4–11And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
- 1 Kgs 4:22–28Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
- Neh 10:39For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.”
- 1 Chr 27:25–31Azmaveth son of Adiel was in charge of the royal storehouses. Jonathan son of Uzziah was in charge of the storehouses in the country, in the cities, in the villages, and in the fortresses.
- Prov 27:23–27Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;
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Wisdom personified, with God before creation and the agent of all things, anticipates Christ 'in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom' — the wisdom of God made flesh.
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