Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Proverbs 7:1-27
The Bad Woman
A picture drawn from life of the enticing of a young man by a wicked woman.
The Bad Woman
A picture drawn from life of the enticing of a young man by a wicked woman.
CHAPTER VII _A farther exhortation to acquire wisdom, in order to be_ _preserved from impure connections_, 1-5. _The character of a harlot, and her conduct towards a youth who_ _fell into her snar...
The harlot adulteress of an Eastern city is contrasted with the true feminine ideal of the Wisdom who is to be the “sister” and “kinswoman” Proverbs 7:4 of the young man as he goes on his way through...
CHAPTER 7 The entire chapter is a continuation of the strange woman and the warning against her. The Word and the law of the Lord will keep the obedient son from her. If Solomon had obeyed the Word of...
The longest and most elaborate description of the adulteress, the fate of her victim, and the value of wisdom as a safeguard. PROVERBS 7:1. General advice to the young man to observe the commandment...
MY SON. See note on Proverbs 1:8. KEEP. watch. WORDS. sayings. Hebrew. _imrah._ App-73....
The LXX. add at the end of this verse, "My son, fear the Lord and thou shalt be strong, And beside him, fear none other....
Proverbs 7:1] Compare the similar exhortations Proverbs 1:8-9; Proverbs 2:1-5; Proverbs 3:1;...
DISCOURSE: 768 LOVE TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURES INCULCATED Proverbs 7:1. _My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye....
MY SON, KEEP MY WORDS— Chastity is a virtue of so much consequence, and impurity such a bane to youth, that the wise man thought he could not too often make mention of the danger of the one, to move m...
CHAPTER 7 TEXT Proverbs 7:1-12 1. My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee. 2. Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye. 3. Bind them upon thy fin...
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Proverbs 7:1.-Prefatory exhortation to retaining firmly wisdom as the safeguard against the strange woman (Proverbs 7:1). Graphic pictur...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 7 PROVERBS CHAPTER S 7 TO 9 The last, and greatest, of Solomon’s lessons, begins here. Since chapter 1, we have read the words that Solomon t...
Previously, Solomon told us to learn to be wise (Proverbs 2:2). Now, he tells us to keep wisdom in our hearts. Previously, Solomon told us to accept wisdom (Proverbs 2:1). Now he tells us that Wisdom...
בְּ֭נִי שְׁמֹ֣ר אֲמָרָ֑י וּ֝ מִצְוֹתַ֗י תִּצְפֹּ֥ן...
CHAPTER 8 REALISM IN MORAL TEACHING "I looked forth through my lattice; and I beheld." Proverbs 7:6 THE three Chapter s which close the introduction of our book (7-9) present a lively and picturesqu...
This is a second parental exhortation, and consists of a warning against the allurements of the strange woman. A graphic picture of the seduction of a youth void of understanding is given. The woman w...
_Words. As dangerous temptations always threaten, the same instructions are frequently inculcated. (Worthington)_...
CONTENTS. In this Chapter under the representation of an harlot, the deception that is practised upon our fallen nature is strikingly set forth, and the departure from God in sin and uncleanness is i...
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...
MY SON, KEEP MY WORDS,.... Doctrines and instructions; which, as a father to a son, or a master to his scholars, he had delivered; these he would have him observe and attend to; AND LAY UP MY COMMAND...
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Ver. 1. _My son, keep my words._] Aristotle hath observed, and daily experience makes it good, that man shows his weakness no way more tha...
CONDEMNATION OF FORNICATION AND ADULTERY. On account of the terrible devastation wrought by sins of adultery and by every gratification of sexual desires outside of holy wedlock, affecting not only t...
My son, keep my words, observing his sayings, AND LAY UP MY COMMANDMENTS WITH THEE, like a precious treasure, to be used with discretion....
1-5 We must lay up God's commandments safely. Not only, Keep them, and you shall live; but, Keep them as those that cannot live without them. Those that blame strict and careful walking as needless a...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 7 Solomon again persuadeth to keep his laws, and delight in wisdom, PROVERBS 7:1. A young man void of understanding is insnared by a harlot, PROVERBS 7:6. A description of a harlot, P...
Proverbs 7:1 son H1121 keep H8104 (H8798) words H561 treasure H6845 (H8799) commands H4687 My son -...
AN APPEAL TO ‘MY SON' TO OBSERVE HIS WORDS AND HIS COMMANDMENTS AND TO TAKE WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING AS HIS CLOSE FEMALE RELATIVES, SO AS TO BE PROTECTED FROM THE FOREIGN WOMAN (PROVERBS 7:1). This ap...
CONTENTS: Warning against all approaches to the sin of adultery. CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: The Word of God, if used for a defense and armor, will keep one from the strange woman and...
Proverbs 7:1. _Keep my words lay up my commandments._ These terms being of constant occurrence in the didactic scriptures, will be found explained in the beginning of the hundred and nineteenth psalm....
_My son keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee._ PARENTAL PRECEPTS “Lay up.” Hebrew, “hide.” A metaphor from treasure not left open in the house, but looked up in chests unseen, lest it...
CRITICAL NOTES. PROVERBS 7:2. APPLE OF THE EYE, the “pupil,” literally the “little man” of the eye, referring to the reflected image of a man seen in that organ. PROVERBS 7:3. BIND THEM “refers to r...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 7:1 13. _Thirteenth admonitory discourse, _containing a warning against adultery, treated under a different aspect from previous exhortations, and strengthened by an example. In...
He continues his exhortation to the son in chapter 7. Still talking about these women that are the wrong sort. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and li...
Deuteronomy 11:28; Job 22:22; John 14:23; John 15:20; Luke 11:28;...