by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.
Parallel translations
- KJV And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
- BSB through knowledge its rooms are filled with every precious and beautiful treasure.
- ESV by knowledge the rooms are 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).
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Cross-references · 13
- Prov 15:6In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
- Prov 21:20There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.
- Prov 20:15There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
- Prov 8:21That I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.
- Matt 13:52He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”
- 1 Chr 29:2–9Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the brass for the things of brass, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
- Neh 13:5–13had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the porters; and the wave offerings for the priests.
- 2 Chr 4:18–22Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance; for the weight of the brass could not be determined.
- 2 Chr 26:4–11He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
- 1 Kgs 4:22–28Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,
- Neh 10:39For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the porters and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.
- 1 Chr 27:25–31Over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah;
- Prov 27:23–27Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:
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