Bible Strands
Proverbs 24:4
through knowledge its rooms are filled with every precious and beautiful treasure.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The author addresses a learner in a wisdom discourse, extending the architectural metaphor introduced in the preceding verse.
The words — The text emphasizes דַעַת (da'at), meaning knowledge, and חֲדָרִים (chadarim), meaning rooms, which are explicitly described as being filled with wealth and precious items.
The thread — The imagery of a dwelling holding valuable treasure runs through Proverbs 15:6 and Proverbs 21:20, while Proverbs 20:15 contrasts material abundance with the rarity of spoken knowledge.
Why it lands — The text states that knowledge fills a house with every precious and pleasant treasure, requiring the reader to treat discernment as the primary material that sustains a household.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 15:6 The house of the righteous has great treasure, but the income of the wicked is trouble.
- Proverbs 21:20 Precious treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man consumes them.
- Proverbs 20:15 There is an abundance of gold and rubies, but lips of knowledge are a rare treasure.
- Proverbs 8:21 bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.
- Matthew 13:52 Then 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 Chronicles 29:2 Now 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.
- Nehemiah 13:5 and 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.
- 1 Kings 4:22 Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
- 1 Chronicles 27:25 Azmaveth 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.
- 2 Chronicles 26:4 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.