Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Proverbs 5:5
hell Sheol, R.V. "which signifies the abode of departed spirits, and corresponds to the Greek Hades" (εἰς τὸν ᾅδην, LXX., ad inferos, Vulg. here). See R.V. Preface.
hell Sheol, R.V. "which signifies the abode of departed spirits, and corresponds to the Greek Hades" (εἰς τὸν ᾅδην, LXX., ad inferos, Vulg. here). See R.V. Preface.
Verse Proverbs 5:5. _HER FEET GO DOWN TO DEATH_] She first, like a serpent, infuses her _poison_, by which the whole _constitution_ of her paramour is infected, which soon or late brings on _death_....
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Shun the strange woman and sinful passion (Proverbs 5:1)_ 2. The life of chastity (Proverbs 5:15) Proverbs 5:1. It is a warning against literal fornication and the accompanying spirit...
PROVERBS 5:1; PROVERBS 5:10; PROVERBS 5:20. Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and...
HELL. the grave. Hebrew. _sheol._ App-35....
CHAPTER 5 TEXT Proverbs 5:1-14 1. My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding: 2. That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3. For th...
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. HER FEET GO DOWN TO DEATH; HER STEPS TAKE HOLD ON HELL - in awful contrast to "taking hold of the paths of life" (). Death of the body: spir...
UNHOLY PASSION. HALLOWED LOVE A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss of honour, property, life, oppo...
If our behaviour is evil, then the result, in the end, is death. Solomon’s son might die if he follows the married woman. Solomon does not say how his son could die. The woman’s angry husband may kill...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 5 Chapter 5 is a poem. The poem has two subjects: 1. A married woman tempts a man who is not her husband. 2. Evil things are like this woman,...
TAKE HOLD ON HELL. — They lead straight to it....
רַ֭גְלֶיהָ יֹרְדֹ֣ות מָ֑וֶת שְׁ֝אֹ֗ול צְעָדֶ֥יהָ יִתְמֹֽכוּ׃...
CHAPTER 6 THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN "His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his fo...
QUICKSANDS! KEEP OFF! Proverbs 5:1-14 It is a matter for great thankfulness that the Bible, which is God's book rather than man's, deals so strongly and wisely with one great evil, which has manifest...
This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural t...
Her (c) feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. (c) All her doings lead to destruction....
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
HER FEET GO DOWN TO DEATH,.... The ways in which she walks, and in which she leads others, issue oftentimes in corporeal death; and always in eternal death, if grace prevent not; and unless men are br...
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Ver. 5. _Her feet go down to death._] The Romans were wont to have their funerals at the gates of Venus's temple, to signify that lust was the...
_For the lips of a strange woman_, &c. It concerns thee to get and to use discretion, that thou mayest be able to resist those manifold temptations to which thou art exposed; _drop as a honeycomb_ Her...
WARNING AGAINST WANTONNESS...
Her feet go down to death, whither she leads all those who have yielded to her blandishments; HER STEPS TAKE HOLD ON HELL, the course of her life ends in everlasting destruction....
1-14 Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from fleshly lusts. Some, by the adulterous woman, here understand idolatry, false doctrine, which tends to lead astray men's minds an...
HER FEET; her course or manner of life....
Proverbs 5:5 feet H7272 down H3381 (H8802) death H4194 steps H6806 hold H8551 (H8799) hell H7585...
THE NEED TO LISTEN TO SOLOMON'S WISDOM AND NOT TO BE ENTICED BY THE WORDS OF THE STRANGE WOMAN WHICH LEAD TO DEATH AND SLAVERY (PROVERBS 5:1). The constant reference to the need to avoid the enticemen...
HELL Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
CONTENTS: Caution against the sin of whoredom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: We ought industriously to avoid everything that might be an occasion of the sin of adultery or a step to...
Proverbs 5:3. _The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb._ She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woman....
_My son, attend unto my wisdom._ CAUTION AGAINST SEXUAL SINS The scope of the passage is a warning against seventh-commandment sins, which youth is so prone to, the temptations to which are so viole...
_For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb._ A STRANGE WOMAN One outside of the true family bonds and relationships. This description has been regarded by expositors as having a double se...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 5:2 The son’s LIPS MAY GUARD KNOWLEDGE, that is, he should not speak anything that is inconsistent with true knowledge and wisdom. In contrast, THE LIPS OF A FORBIDDEN WOMAN...
_ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19_ Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures those gazelles are, and how gracefully they bound. We...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 5:1 8. _Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. _The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced at before in...
Now my son, attend unto my wisdom, bow your ear to my understanding: That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge (Proverbs 5:1; Proverbs 5:2). And now he's going to warn his...
Proverbs 2:18; Proverbs 2:19; Proverbs 7:27...
Feet — Her manner of life....