Proverbs 7:12 KJV
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Matthew Henry
- The arts of seducers, with warnings against themHere is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on...
Parallel Passages
- Proverbs 9:14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Proverbs 23:28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
- Proverbs 9:14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
- Jeremiah 2:20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
- Jeremiah 2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
- Jeremiah 2:36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
- Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
- Ezekiel 16:24–25 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. …
- Ezekiel 16:31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
- Revelation 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
- Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
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Topics
- Adultery General scriptures concerning
- Blindness Spiritual
- Harlot (prostitute) Shamelessness of
- Hypocrisy General scriptures concerning
- Ignorance General scriptures concerning
- Lasciviousness General scriptures concerning
- Temptation General scriptures concerning
- Women Subtle and deceitful
- Young men General scriptures concerning
Hebrew and Strong’s
- Now פַּעַם paʿam פַּעַם Noun · feminine singular
- without בַּחוּץ baḥûṣ חוּץ Noun · masculine singular · with preposition with the
- now פַּעַם paʿam פַּעַם Noun · feminine singular
- in the streets בָּרְחֹבוֹת borḥōbôt רְחֹב Noun · feminine plural · with preposition with the
- and lieth in wait תֶאֱרֹב teʾĕrōb אָרַב Verb · qal imperfect, third person feminine singular
- at וְאֵצֶל wĕʾēṣel אֵצֶל Preposition · with and
- every corner כָּל kol Noun · masculine singular construct פִּנָּה pinnâ פִּנָּה Noun · feminine singular
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