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
to deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,
Proverbs 7:12
Now without, now in the streets, she lies in wait at every corner.)
Proverbs 9:18
But he does not know that the dead are there and that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Judges 16:4
And it came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are bonds; whosoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be held prisoner in her.
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places and see if there is anywhere thou hast not been ravished. 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.

Increaseth

Numbers 25:1
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to fornicate with the daughters of Moab,
Hosea 4:11
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed and fell dead: in one day, twenty-three thousand.
Revelation 17:1
And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and talked with me, saying unto me, Come here; I will show unto thee the condemnation of the great whore that sits upon many waters,

General references

Proverbs 7:12
Now without, now in the streets, she lies in wait at every corner.)
Proverbs 9:15
to call to those who pass by the way, to those who straighten their ways;