Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

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Bible References

As for a prey

Proverbs 2:16
It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,
from a stranger with her flattering talk,
Proverbs 7:12
Now in the street, now in the squares,
she lurks at every corner.
Proverbs 9:18
But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit;
a man cursed by the Lord will fall into it.
Judges 16:4
Some time later, he fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
Jeremiah 3:2
Look to the barren heights and see.
Where have you not been immoral?
You sat waiting for them beside the highways
like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land
with your prostitution and wickedness.

Increaseth

Numbers 25:1
While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.
Hosea 4:11
Promiscuity, wine, and new wine
take away one’s understanding.
1 Corinthians 10:8
Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day 23,000 people fell dead.
Revelation 17:1
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the judgment of the notorious prostitute who sits on many waters.

General references

Proverbs 7:12
Now in the street, now in the squares,
she lurks at every corner.
Proverbs 9:15
calling to those who pass by,
who go straight ahead on their paths:

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