Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

A piece

The adulteress

General references

Bible References

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Proverbs 5:10
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.
Proverbs 29:3
Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
Luke 15:13
Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

A piece

1 Samuel 2:36
It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"

The adulteress

Genesis 39:14
she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
Ezekiel 13:8
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord Yahweh.

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Judges 16:6
Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you."